lout

noun

Definition of loutnext
1
as in hulk
a big clumsy often slow-witted person watch where you're going, you big lout!

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2
as in bastard
a person whose behavior is offensive to others Howard's rude behavior at the country club earned him a reputation as a lout

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Recent Examples of lout The league’s most popular player has become its biggest lout. — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2026 Suddenly, these two louts are forced to support themselves for the first time. — James Grebey, Vulture, 29 Dec. 2025 The drunken louts who mocked and obscenely jeered the European Ryder Cup contenders at last weekend’s event at Bethpage Black golf course on Long Island would have loved it. — Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 4 Oct. 2025 And when someone does cross the line, like the louts who doused cops in Harlem and Brownsville with water in 2019, most officers have shown remarkable restraint. — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 4 Feb. 2024 See All Example Sentences for lout
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lout
  1. hulk
  2. jerk
  3. loser
  4. clown
  5. lump
  6. dog
  7. moron
  8. boor
Noun
  • Instead, fog clung to every nook and crevice of the glacial hulks surrounding us.
    — Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Water levels on the Danube River, the second longest in Europe, have dropped so low because of drought that the hulks of dozens of World War II German battleships — and even the remains of an ancient woolly mammoth — are emerging into view.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of hulk
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  • Mido, the jerk who blocks your progress in Kokiri Forest, has been subtly rewritten from bully to overbearing but well-intentioned boss.
    — James Perkins Mastromarino, NPR, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Whizzing up and down the hills of San Francisco, I was at once mesmerized by the steering wheel turning on its own and a bit scared of the occasional jerk and sudden stop.
    — Peter Hall, Scientific American, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of jerk
Noun
  • Memory and chip firms SanDisk, Western Digital, AMD, Seagate and Micron were the index’s biggest losers, all plunging around 10%.
    — Steve Kopack, NBC news, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Counting among the biggest losers on Election Day was Elon Musk, who is currently facing a lawsuit over allegations that the gas turbines at his Colossus data center in Memphis, Tennessee, are emitting pollution.
    — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of loser
Noun
  • Two clowns in serious legal trouble colluded to put the entire planet in an economic crisis.
    — Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 7 Nov. 2026
  • The procession will also welcome 52 floats, 31 clown crews, nine specialty units (such as trycaloons, or balloons ridden on tricycles), seven marching bands, and five balloonicles (that’s a balloon-vehicle hybrid).
    — Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of clown
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  • The longer the sweet potatoes heat in the Dutch oven, the more the lumps will soften.
    — Candy Hom, AJC.com, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Her aunt, a breast cancer survivor, was the first person who encouraged her to get that initial lump checked.
    — Emily Cegielski, Flow Space, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of lump
Noun
  • The retail giant won a new trial in the case of a woman who had been awarded a nearly $1 million verdict after slipping and falling on a liquid in the dog food aisle of a store in Valdosta.
    — Adam Beam, AJC.com, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Ask to see the set that still remains—just watch out for the grumpy resident dog, who is best admired from afar.
    — Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of dog
Noun
  • The fact that there is someone out there who could actually get all the real unsuspecting morons who participated in this movie to sign off on it afterwards is simply astonishing considering what they are asked to do in it.
    — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2026
  • The unlikely source is Enervate’s company stooge corporate strategist, Ken Davies (Tim Key), a moron by any measure.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of moron
Noun
  • We’d be laughed at and called ignorant boors!
    — Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Now, if the board is made up of more boors than just the one, this may not be a workable solution.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Denver Post, 16 July 2025
Definition of boor

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“Lout.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lout. Accessed 13 Nov. 2026.

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