loutish
/ˈlaʊtɪʃ
/adjective
(Of a man or boy) uncouth and aggressive; thuggish: youths responsible for awful, loutish behaviour...
- They are a tight-knit community with people of status at the helm, but even their best efforts cannot control the lunatic, bullying, and loutish few.
- They are worried they will have to put up with loutish behaviour from rowdy drinkers, vandalism and kitchen smells.
- She claimed that loutish youths, prying locals and boorish day-trippers were making life intolerable.
Synonyms
uncouth, rude, impolite, unmannerly, ill-mannered, ill-bred, coarse;
thuggish, boorish, oafish, rowdy, bullying, uncivilized, wild, rough, vulgar, philistine, common, crass
informal yobbish, slobbish
Derivatives
loutishly
/ adverb ...- Independent travellers are also capable of behaving as loutishly as the most inebriated package holidaymaker.
- Political officials loudly and loutishly challenge the judiciary's power as well as its decisions.
- It's full of different characters, stylishly or loutishly dressed, as the case may be.
loutishness
/ noun ...- By creating this category of loutishness or kids hanging around the Government can acknowledge anxieties without admitting there may be a problem with crime.
- But there is a sense among many, heightened by recent headlines, that the speed and regularity with which inane and drunken loutishness turns violent is sufficiently alarming to become a national priority.
- He insisted that it was this ‘poverty’ which acted as ‘the breeding ground of the violence, loutishness and addiction which blights areas of our city’.