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
He’s a lout, he’s a slob, he’s a mess — and he is enormously fine company on the page.
From New York Times ● May 20, 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
I nod, feeling like a lout for asking such a personal question.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
Like yours, there were good moments and bad, great bosses and real louts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2020
You might, though, have a moment of doubt when she goes on to describe one of 17th-century London’s notorious menaces, a group of upper-class louts who took their name from a Latin poem by Virgil.
From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2018
In other words, it's not people who don't actually tune in who are dismissing Congress as a bunch of louts.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 26, 2015
These louts are gonna have to watch this sometime.
From The New Yorker ● May 29, 2014
“And to be absolutely sure, I’m leaving one of my bodyguards behind. Which of you louts volunteers for the duty?”
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
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