Sentence examples for loutish from inspiring English sources

In launching an action plan to crack down on alcohol-related crime, the home office minister Charles Clarke said: "The government is determined to tackle the problem of alcohol-related crime by giving the police and local authorities the support and powers they need to deal with unacceptable, loutish behaviour.

Listening to her Dutch friends, she assumed that Americans were fat, loutish, naive and sexually repressed.

BELIEVE the caricature, and one kind of football stars overpaid loutish playboys, associated with hooligans by day and drunken sluts at night.

Yunior is at once loutish and baffled; the effect is both funny and piercing.

I'm convinced their sense of anonymity goes a long way to encouraging users' loutish behaviour on internet chatrooms.The campaign has brought speedy results.

Mr Santer was chided, more mildly, for allowing the commission's security services to operate as a sort of loutish private club for retired Belgian policemen a state of affairs which, to be fair, Mr Santer had inherited from his predecessor, France's Jacques Delors.

But its learning curve has been painfully long, its manners uncouth and its coalition partners loutish.

They love putting down their wealthy western cousins as loutish rednecks who have the dumb luck to be sitting on pools of oil and natural gas.