Guy who's all thumbs

Usage examples of lout.

I saw that the lout was astonished not to hear the lamentations he expected.

Ladyham and Mentle where Baff got killed by louts, and book for anywhere but France?

A boy with none of the glaring faults of a lout like Goofus, a boy with none of the bogus suburban qualities of Gallant.

An occasional wealthy passenger swayed and bobbed in a kago, a basketlike chair borne on the shoulders of brawny louts whose kimonos hung open to display magnificently tattooed chests and legs.

Genevieve Simpson, lived with her mother and her brother, a heavy young lout of nineteen years, in a two- family house at Melrose.

Eerst ben je zoo zot je engagement af te maken, louter uit een gril, zonder de minste aanleiding, zeg ik je!

Niet dat ik je vraag, ik spreek alleen maar uit louter belangstelling.

Was dat louter scherts, dien zij allen begrepen, of was dat iets valsch?

And no sign at all of the Crowd Queller, the Royal Guards or the Vonahrish Guard who should have driven off the criminal louts long before they ever set filthy foot upon royal property.

Sir Stian, the lout of Harelby, would be interested in dalliance with her.

And there, among the patrons, sat Franz Tulp, a burly blond lout with a scornful grin, his friends clustered round him.

Some of these rebels are men of education, but most seem to be louts of the lowest class with more wind than brains and better able to blame the king for their woes than apply themselves to wholesome work.

The masters like to say that Daryans and northerners are louts and liars, goat-footed and braying like asses.

Taig, who knew Renig dockside to farm gates, assured her this was the best place for their purpose: to be perceived as drunken louts who, when they departed sometime around Fifteenth, could barely walk.

The youthful years of Shakespeare were spent under circumstances which might have produced in him one dull and unaspiring British country lout, like, as one egg to another, to a hundred thousand others who lived in his age.