lout
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The league’s most popular player has become its biggest lout.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026
"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.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2023
At light speed, the action zips to Siberia, where it momentarily bogs down in an extended dance-off between a bald and shirtless Russian lout and Sonic and Tails.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 5, 2022
“Stick to sports” is the cry of the lout, accented by incuriosity and indifference.
From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2019
“So inappropriate,” the black-leather lout sighed, turning suddenly fey.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
“For seven years, he had more than his share of knuckleheads, louts, losers and prima donnas,” former Washington Post sports columnist Michael Wilbon once wrote of Mr. Unseld’s checkered tenure as head coach.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 2, 2020
Like yours, there were good moments and bad, great bosses and real louts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2020
The attacks now come not just from the alt-right and anonymous Twitter louts.
From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2018
These louts are gonna have to watch this sometime.
From The New Yorker ● May 29, 2014
Juliet scowled—something else that the local louts found very endearing.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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