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Noun
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Generations of agents, therefore, have had to walk a line between bookishness and brutishness.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026 -
But the brutishness has merely relocated, to places far more dangerous.—
Ian Buruma,
New Yorker,
23 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The crowds, the rowdiness, the getting there and back can give you pause.—
Moira McCarthy,
Boston Herald,
1 Mar. 2026
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The rowdiness represented the first wave of an Alaskan storm that drew extra moisture from the subtropics.—
Gary Robbins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Apologies for any churlishness, but those in and around the club will be relieved to have removed an annoying factoid from Amorim’s 11-month tenure.—
Carl Anka,
New York Times,
19 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The handloom process produces layered, tactile surfaces that celebrate rawness and rusticity.—
Allison Hatfield,
Dallas Morning News,
17 Mar. 2026
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At the center of the ranch is a 5,800-square-foot lodge that combines classic Rocky Mountain rusticity with Old World European elegance.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
22 Sep. 2025
Noun
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It is hoped that political ad campaigns would aim to lessen the meanness and divisiveness and vulgarity that have damaged our democracy.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Feb. 2026
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Former President Richard Nixon proved himself no slouch in the vulgarity department after reaching the White House in 1969.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
22 Feb. 2026
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The Trump era is one of indelicacy, profanity, and real—not imagined—misogyny, and its flacks deserve a language that matches up.—
Josephine Livingstone,
The New Republic,
5 June 2018
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Trump added, seemingly referring to the indelicacy of directly attacking a war hero who is fighting brain cancer.—
Callum Borchers,
Washington Post,
28 Feb. 2018
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“Loutishness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loutishness. Accessed 26 Mar. 2026.
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