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louche

[ loosh ]

adjective

  1. dubious; shady; disreputable.


louche

/ luːʃ /

adjective

  1. shifty or disreputable


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Word History and Origins

Origin of louche1

1810–20; < French: literally, cross-eyed; Old French losche, feminine of lois < Latin luscus blind in one eye

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Word History and Origins

Origin of louche1

C19: from French, literally: squinting

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Example Sentences

From this louche improbable source pours music of sublime beauty without one false note.

Both vaporiums I visited included areas to hang out it, like the louche opium dens of old.

The opalescent, minty-green louche billows under the ice water droplets.

Akkari and Laban had long been disaffected with life in Denmark, a country they saw as louche and irreligious.

Temperamentally speaking, Augusta is so small “c” conservative it makes George Will look louche by comparison.

M. de Montrond talks of returning to Louche to put his poor body in a bath.

His conduct, as the Juge d'Instruction told him, without mincing matters, was undeniably louche.

"Young Mr. Richie Gardiner seemed louche" she observed after a silence which Warren seemed willing indefinitely to prolong.

Clarendon told me this was only one of many instances in which the conduct of the French had been very louche and insincere.

The aunt will refuse; she will think the whole proceeding very louche!

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