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Recent Examples of lout What if Rocky Balboa were an arrogant lout? Kyle Smith, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023 Just picture some lout like, say, Biff from Back to the Future, and imagine his face upon learning a hot candy character swapped stilettos for practical block heels. Diane Brady, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023 The most arresting is Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan, a heavy-drinking lout with legendarily twisted and peaked eyebrows, whose ineptitude as a military commanderdid not impede his rise to the presidency of Pakistan. Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022 Douglas, as contemptuous of the lout as he is prudently inhibited about asserting himself, channels his just fury into an intellectually flamboyant torrent of sarcastic rhetoric—leading other white patrons, assuming Douglas to be the aggressor, to consider calling the police. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2021 See All Example Sentences for lout
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lout
Noun
  • There, beside the shiplike hulk of the Basilica of San Petronio—which is a work in progress, the foundation stone having been laid in 1390, and which somebody really should get around to finishing one of these days—was a vast white screen.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Like the port-holes of a hulk, Human spiders spin and spin, Backward down their threads so thin Dropping, each a hempen bulk.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The Wanderers, three-time A-League Grand Final losers but AFC Champions League winners in 2014, are still smarting after being knocked out of last season’s Finals series by eventual finalists Melbourne Victory.
    Jack Bantock, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • As the former Pentagon Papers whistleblower relates, all of us will be losers; sobering words that remain a catalyst for change.
    Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The host, Scotty, is an acerbic jerk who saves his meanest digs for Richter’s Mickey.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Saddled with an uninteresting jerk half the time and a muzzled non-entity the other half, there’s only a handful of moments in the first six episodes where Powell’s star power shines through.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Former Des Plaines officer Mike Albrecht recalled to NBC Chicago that when police were assigned to surveil Gacy after Piest's disappearance, the part-time clown would try to pal around with officers and invite them into his house.
    Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The girls are just as down to clown, coming up with funny drunk poses and faces.
    Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Then bit my own lips hard until the painful lump went away.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
  • But when the couple's teenage son washed the lump of material under the garden tap, the family realized there were gold coins present.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Fey also mocked Noem's infamous story about shooting a family dog.
    Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Lake Worth police have remined public to not approach the dog involved, according to the social media post.
    Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Only a moron would cut the funding of an industry that actually brings revenue into the government’s pocket.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Seth Rollins gassed Bron up by saying Jey Uso thinks his dad is a loser and his uncle is a moron.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • So, the parallel thing that I’ve been frustrated by recently is not just calling Trump stupid, but calling Trump voters stupid.
    Drew Broussard May 22, Literary Hub, 22 May 2025
  • Sometimes too stupid is actually smartski but sometimes is just stupid stupid.
    Caroline Downey, National Review, 27 Mar. 2025

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“Lout.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lout. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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