Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a loutish or awkward manner.

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  • adverb In a loutish manner.

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Examples

  • It proved to be a self-fulfilling prophecy too, as Anvil is back to playing sizeable clubs and commanding the kind of attention they got when they started playing loutishly sweet and sincere metal more than 30 years ago.

    Wing It Out Loud Around Town Andy Battaglia 2011

  • Lydia is somehow discovered by a veteran member of the paparazzi, who loutishly begins stalking and photographing her, hoping to capitalize on this once-in-a-lifetime exposé.

    The Princess Reimagined Sam Sacks 2011

  • Mr. Williams's tiger is a foul-mouthed comedian-predator who is shot to death by Kev (Brad Fleischer), a loutishly stupid American soldier, when he bites off the hand of Tom (Glenn Davis), Kev's corrupt buddy.

    From the Realm of Moral Equivalence Terry Teachout 2011

  • VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Enabling Incompetence: Waiting for Godot in Iraq'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'what a waste the Iraq War is and how loutishly and amateurishly it has been waged by the Bush Administration.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Enabling Incompetence: Waiting for Godot in Iraq 2006

  • Rate It what a waste the Iraq War is and how loutishly and amateurishly it has been waged by the Bush Administration.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Enabling Incompetence: Waiting for Godot in Iraq 2006

  • Or if he loutishly will keep following the despicable lead of the Iranian and some lefties who should know better.

    Memorials: Holocausts here and there (Real ones, that is) 2006

  • Or if he loutishly will keep following the despicable lead of the Iranian and some lefties who should know better.

    09/24/2006 - 10/01/2006 2006

  • He saw a boy chewing gum, a man cleaning his fingernails with the corner of a match folder, a youth stretched out loutishly.

    The Fountainhead Rand, Ayn 1943

  • Simultaneously the half-winded policeman lumbered around the Fifth Avenue corner, and a man, detaching himself from the shadows of a neighboring doorway, began to trot loutishly across the street, evidently with the intention of intercepting Maitland at the door.

    The Brass Bowl Louis Joseph Vance 1906

  • They stared at him stupidly, not speaking or touching their caps, just loutishly staring; and he stared at them with black severity.

    The Devil's Garden W. B. Maxwell 1902

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