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- noun Plural form of
lout . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
lout .
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Examples
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For many fans not just the talk radio louts, that is terribly frustrating.
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The foreigners are presented as big-nosed, racist louts, which isn't offensive as much as disappointing.
Mania News Feed 2010
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The foreigners are presented as big-nosed, racist louts, which isn't offensive as much as disappointing.
Mania News Feed 2010
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Mr Betts called the louts "untouchables", because of their apparent free pass to run amok and not be fined.
Star News Group 2009
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Therefore, it is more newsworthy to see footage of police acting thuggishly, ‘out of character’, in the manner of exactly the kind of louts they’re supposed to protect us from … than it is to read the undeniably sad story of an officer dying in the course of his duty.
Policeman killed - NO STORY. Woman slapped - BIG STORY. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Even poor Maggie does her best, gracefully lowering herself towards the level of these coarse British and Irish louts.
The Graham Norton Show: Safe on the sofa Sam Wollaston 2010
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It's rather beside the point to say that the jeering louts probably aren't a majority of the students.
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I protested again, I'm not Emilio Estevez, only to be drowned out by the three louts who were now singing, completely off key, shot down, in a blaze of glory!
I'm Not Emilio Estevez Christian Bell 2011
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"Occupy is nothing but a pack of louts," he writes, †...
Stanley Rogouski: The Untouchables of Zuccotti Park Stanley Rogouski 2011
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Even the drunken louts awaiting their feast fell silent and sober, as the shaking continued till it rose high enough to make Asgard itself tremble.
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