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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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There’s a maddening human truth tucked into the fact that everyone — from Lebedev’s forceful, hopeful young daughter Sasha (Maya Shoham) to the lout Borkin, whom Labbadia embodies irresistibly as a kind of Bronx-y hustler — is drawn to this man in free fall.
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Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
23 Mar. 2026
Less impactful but notable, Riley added Jimmy Butler to join the Bam Adebayo/Tyler Herro core in 2020, though Butler fell short of delivering a championship before eventually pouting his way lout of town and being traded one year ago, last Feb. 6.
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Greg Cote
january 30,
Miami Herald,
30 Jan. 2026
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.
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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.
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Leonard Greene,
New York Daily News,
4 Feb. 2024
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Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
23 Mar. 2026
Less impactful but notable, Riley added Jimmy Butler to join the Bam Adebayo/Tyler Herro core in 2020, though Butler fell short of delivering a championship before eventually pouting his way lout of town and being traded one year ago, last Feb. 6.
—
Greg Cote
january 30,
Miami Herald,
30 Jan. 2026
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lout
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The hulk has made it to the Seaport once — in September 2024 when it was towed to Pier 17 for a Tommy Hilfiger Fashion Week event.
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But Lobo isn't some mindless arrogant hulk out to impose his indomitable will.
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This Jamaican restaurant, located just off Main Street, brings Caribbean flavors to Mackinac Island’s solid rotation of restaurants, with planked whitefish and jerk chicken sandwiches.
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After Game 4, jerks were throwing things at Victor Wembanyama.
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There, by definition, each match has to have a winner and a loser, so any match that ends in a draw proceeds to two 15-minute periods of overtime, and, if that fails to untie the score, a penalty kick shootout.
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The loser of Saturday’s match in Kansas City will finish third in this group.
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The island village is beset by sea hags, serial killers, creepy clowns and other evils that interfere with Tom’s dream of turning Widow’s Bay into a Martha’s Vineyard-like tourist destination.
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Even the announcers are laughing at the clown Way to swing the bat.
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Far from lumps of rock, the trojans, along with DJ and Dinkinesh (which is the Ethiopian name for the Lucy fossil), are windows into the past, and the storytellers of the Earth's most ancient history.
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Rather than receiving a lump-sum loan upfront, borrowers can access a credit line as needed during the draw period (up to the credit limit).
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What breaks my heart is that Vermax’s cries sounded like a dog crying, a dog dying.
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Roughly the size of a large dog and weighing more than 110 pounds (50 kilograms), the quadruped robot is designed to navigate industrial facilities that include staircases, narrow walkways, uneven surfaces, and confined spaces.
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Mantzoukas was willing to look like a maniac and a moron in equal measure.
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Lluís then calls Puig Antich a moron.
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We’d be laughed at and called ignorant boors!
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Now, if the board is made up of more boors than just the one, this may not be a workable solution.
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“Lout.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lout. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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