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And though “Tony” doesn’t entirely lack that heady romanticization, its choice to amplify its introductory quote — making Bourdain an even more insufferable lout for dramatic effect — feels antithetical to Bourdain’s raw candor.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026

The league’s most popular player has become its biggest lout.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026

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

A 2010 Vanity Fair reminiscence by James Verini wrote: “They call Ames and Taibbi, singly or in combination, children, louts, misogynists, madmen, pigs, hypocrites, anarchists, fascists, racists, and fiends.”

From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2017

They represented someone’s cynical fantasy of the masses, a coalition of louts and groupies and wasted youths who, come to think of it, probably weren’t even reading rock criticism in the first place.

From Slate ● Jun. 18, 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