Example sentences for: louts

How can you use “louts” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The term "black comedy" has become so elastic in the last few years that it now extends to entertainments as various as Life Is Beautiful , in which Chaplinesque sentimentality is juxtaposed with concentration-camp horror, and Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels , in which flyspeck louts machine-gun other flyspeck louts with farcical haplessness.

  • Raffish louts, cigar-sucking men who wear their hats indoors, chain-smoking women with voices like rusty gates, cynical muckrakers with one eye poised on the nearest keyhole, one ear on the latest whispered gossip, one nose on the nearest free lunch.

  • Anagram: Safely able louts.

  • In the Dirty Harry movies or the rabidly right-wing 1986 Heartbreak Ridge (which ends with a potency-reclaiming invasion of Grenada), there's little irony in Eastwood's superiority to the succession of louts, prisses, and psychopaths whom his character inevitably clobbers or blows away, or in the fact that he is of greater stature than the actors with whom he surrounds himself.


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