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"The way it was twisted to make her out be a drunken, bigoted wee lout was one of the worst times of my life," recalls her father.

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"It's possible that their lout of a client insisted that the lawyers waste their meeting with general grievances about prosecutorial misconduct that already have been rejected by the courts," tweeted former U.S.

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He’s a lout, he’s a slob, he’s a mess — and he is enormously fine company on the page.

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His name is Neil Gibson, in homage, one assumes, to the cyberpunk writers Neil Stephenson and William Gibson, even though he’s a lout and, to the best of my knowledge, Stephenson and Gibson are not.

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She despises what’s happening to her country, and she deplores some Russian soldiers who are drunks and louts.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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