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loutish

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lout·ish  (loutsh)
adj.
Having the characteristics of a lout; awkward, stupid, and boorish.

loutish·ly adv.
loutish·ness n.

loutish [ˈlaʊtɪʃ]
adj
characteristic of a lout; unpleasant and uncouth
loutishly  adv
loutishness  n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.loutish - ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude"
unrefined - (used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth; "how can a refined girl be drawn to such an unrefined man?"

loutish
adjective oafish, rough, gross, coarse, bungling, churlish, stolid, boorish, gawky, uncouth, lumpen (informal), ill-bred, lumpish, swinish, clodhopping (informal), doltish, unmannerly, ill-mannered, lubberly I was appalled by the loutish behaviour.
Translations
loutish [ˈlaʊtɪʃ] ADJgrosero, maleducado
loutish [ˈlaʊtɪʃ] adj [person] → rustre; [behaviour] → de rustre
loutish
loutish [ˈlaʊtɪʃ] adjrozzo/a, da zotico/a
loutish [ˈlaʊtɪʃ] adjrozzo/a, da zotico/a


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He was a London boy, with a loutish air, a heavy fellow with the beginnings of a moustache on his lip and bushy eyebrows that joined one another across the bridge of his nose.
It had been one of the wonders of their intercourse that from the first, she, the quicker, finer, more expressive, instead of crushing him by the contrast, had given him something of her own ease and freedom; but now he felt as heavy and loutish as in his student days, when he had tried to "jolly" the Worcester girls at a picnic.
look, fair Godmother Fleur-de-Lys, at that pretty dancer who is dancing on the pavement and playing the tambourine in the midst of the loutish bourgeois
 
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