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Tuesday July 10, 2001

louche \LOOSH\, adjective:
Of questionable taste or morality; disreputable or indecent; dubious; shady.

You've got to keep yourself free of any suggestion of louche behavior.
-- Anthony West

A man in a bar, utterly average, though there is something louche about him, something sly.
-- Andrew Holleran, In September, the Light Changes

Danny would be sipping a mai tai or a whiskey sour in some louche West End club.
-- Will Self, Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys

In the louche era of the Regency she was almost a portent of the Victorian ideal to come; in an earlier age she might have been a Puritan.
-- Mary S. Lovell, Rebel Heart

Louche is from French louche, "shady, suspicious," from Old French losche, "squint-eyed," from Latin luscus, "one-eyed."

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