Example Sentences

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He placed Joan and her defenders downstage, and had the occupying force jeer at her loutishly from atop the scaffold staircase.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 13, 2017

Why, there was a fourth, altogether too loutishly and innocently eating an apple as he strayed on!

From "Persons Unknown" by Tracy, Virginia

Timothy Garlinge grinned loutishly at this rebuke, but the fat dame whom Halfman’s flourish indicated seemed to dilate with satisfaction.

From The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel by McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)

They stared at him stupidly, not speaking or touching their caps, just loutishly staring; and he stared at them with black severity.

From The Devil's Garden by Maxwell, W. B.