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How to use lout in a sentence

12 example sentences · noun, verb

Lout means a troublemaker, often violent; a rude violent person; a yob. Example: “Get out of bed, you lazy lout!”

Examples of lout by meaning

nounA troublemaker, often violent; a rude violent person; a yob.

  • But the lout looked only to his market, and was not easily repulsed.1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, “The Dissolution”, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., →OCLC, page 6
  • You see louts fresh from school kicking grey-haired servants.1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 5, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC

More sentences with lout

  • Get out of bed, you lazy lout!From the entry lazy
  • That wasn't very tactful towards poor Li; Li is right when she says that Fred is an egoistic lout.1996, Karel Čapek, “The Yacht on the Lagoon”, in M. Weatherall, R. Weatherall, transl., War with the Newts, Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern…. From the entry needn't
  • A similar larrikin streak sends louts into city parks to shy stones at monuments and chip noses of statuary.1947 August 18, “Editorial: The Vandal Streak”, in Alice Mabel Jackson, editor, The Australian Women’s Weekly, Sydney, N.S.W.…. From the entry larrikin
  • You are a country lout—fit only to associate with pigs.1934, Lew Levenson, chapter V, in Butterfly Man, New York, N.Y.: Castle Books, →OCLC, page 53. From the entry neither fish nor fowl
  • But the lout looked only to his market, and was not easily repulsed. ¶ "He's there, I tell you," he persisted.1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., →OCLC, page 01. From the entry look to
  • Where louts shout and thugs mug.2015, Alan Pinkett, Utta Drivel Too, →ISBN, page 59. From the entry dog rough
  • When the last of the louts disappears down the drive in his Aston Martin, all Willy can think about is crashing out in his four-poster.1984, Software Projects, Jet Set Willy (video game's printed instructions). From the entry thrash
  • He kept shouting "pigs, louts, goatherds" in several languages; then he exhausted his octolingual vocabulary on words like Communists, deviationists, Reactionaries, and Imperialist dogs.1951, The American Mercury, volume 72, page 154. From the entry octolingual
  • Silver needed to be bold and decisive and he was unquestionably both in sending the lout Donald Sterling to the showers with a lifetime ban on Tuesday.2014 April 29, Mitch Lawrence, “Donald Sterling's racist behavior has been habitual for years”, in New York Daily News, retrieved 08 Jul…. From the entry send someone to the showers
  • Particularly unpleasant did I find the skankily dressed Eurotrashy Italian men, but the drunken British and German football fans and lager louts roaming the streets had little to recommend them.2011, “English Teacher X”, in To Travel Hopelessly: Five Years of Teaching English Abroad. From the entry Eurotrashy

Meaning of lout

  1. noun A troublemaker, often violent; a rude violent person; a yob.
  2. noun A clownish, awkward fellow; a bumpkin.
  3. verb To treat as a lout or fool; to neglect; to disappoint.

Full definition of lout

Questions about lout in a sentence

How do you use lout in a sentence?
Lout is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Get out of bed, you lazy lout!”
What is a short sentence with lout?
“Where louts shout and thugs mug.”
What does lout mean?
Lout means a troublemaker, often violent; a rude violent person; a yob.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lout (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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