Crossword clues for loutish
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Loutish \Lout"ish\, a.
Clownish; rude; awkward. ``Loutish clown.''
--Sir P. Sidney.
-- Lout"ish*ly, adv. -- Lout"ish*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, from lout + -ish. Related: Loutishly; loutishness.
Wiktionary
a. Resembling a lout.
WordNet
adj. 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" [syn: boorish, neanderthal, neandertal, oafish, swinish]
Usage examples of "loutish".
For a man even to try to do so branded him as inurbane, uncouth, and a loutish oaf.
He nodded to the Hackworths and mumbled something gruff but polite through his chinstrap as father and daughter rode out of New Atlantis and into a gaudy dave full of loutish thetes scrumming and chanting before the entrances of pubs.
Guide Bikaner took one look at the scruffy, loutish Kaiti soldiers and suggested I dismiss them out of hand, since the least they could be was spies, and would certainly betray us at the earliest possible chance, and quite likely murder us as we slept.
And no respectable bird family likes to have a loutish young Cowbird to bring up with their own children.
Why, Holger, my darling bear, you’re but bulwarking loutish peasants and fat-gutted burghers, when the mirth and thunder and blazing stars of Chaos could be yours.
She could not but be conscious of her beauty also, and she was vain of that, and came to take a sort of delight in the exercise of her fascinations upon the rather loutish young men who came in her way and whom she despised.