(v. t.) To treat as a lout or fool; to neglect; to disappoint.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gordon Brown's speech played deliberately and directly to the very real fears of many of those people, whether on drunken louts in the high street or teenage mums or financial insecurity, but the paper ignores all that and lands the blow it has been planning for months.
(2) After his meeting with De Villepin, Boubakeur launched a veiled attack on the minister's outbursts, in which he called the disaffected young men on estates 'louts'.
(3) Lager louts now have nine months' notice in which to lay in supplies.
(4) If in the past the 'louts' were forgotten, it looks like they could now be used as pawns by France's politicians.
(5) This was analysed in an equally masterful manner in Que La Bête Meure (The Beast Must Die, 1969) and Le Boucher, both featuring Yanne as, respectively, a nouveau-riche lout who kills a child in a hit-and-run accident, and an emotionally disturbed man who pays court to an equally lonely and repressed schoolmistress (Audran).
(6) A recurring encounter between a Muslim cabbie and a lager lout is also deftly played, particularly by Raymond, and surprising.
(7) It is clear that in many parts of the world constituted by Australian trade union officials, there is room for louts, thugs, bullies, thieves, perjurers, those who threaten violence, errant fiduciaries and organisers of boycotts,” it said.
(8) There he is confronted by a gang of Indian tea louts who - over-stimulated by the Assam - take offence at the honky Norman wearing an Indian cricket shirt and the flag painted on his pallid white face.
(9) Put this way, it is easy to imagine another life where the po-faced Islamist preacher Abu Waleed is a beer-swilling lout hurling abuse from the terraces of his underperforming team.
(10) The vandalism has simply taken a new turn in the last few days because they feel provoked by [Interior Minister] Nicolas Sarkozy's comments about "louts".
(11) Opening night film Café Society (Woody Allen, US) In competition The Salesman (Asghar Farhadi, Iran) Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade, German) Julieta (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain) American Honey (Andrea Arnold, UK) Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas, France) The Unknown Girl (Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Belgium) It’s Only the End of the World (Xavier Dolan, Canada) Ma Loute (Bruno Dumont, France) Paterson (Jim Jarmusch, US) Rester Vertical (Alain Guiraudie, France) Aquarius (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil) Mal de Pierres (Nicole Garcia, Algeria) I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach, UK) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake.
(12) A source, described as a friend, told the Sun that the “entirely random” attack began when a “group of local louts”, with whom the group had no previous contact, appeared “out of nowhere” and one of them punched Márquez in the face.
(13) She was caught in the crossfire between me and the louts, and I railroaded her; she left quietly not long afterwards.
(14) It has always been said that he did away with Loadsamoney as soon as he realised, to his horror, that Essex boys had mistaken the obnoxious lout for a hero.
(15) • Dominic Grieve, the attorney general, has said that f louting European judges over prisoner voting would risk international "anarchy".
(16) In the case of a third offence, law-breakers may be made to wear a sign reading “I am a litter lout”.
Pout
Definition:
(n.) The young of some birds, as grouse; a young fowl.
(v. i.) To shoot pouts.
(v. i.) To thrust out the lips, as in sullenness or displeasure; hence, to look sullen.
(v. i.) To protrude.
(n.) A sullen protrusion of the lips; a fit of sullenness.
(n.) The European whiting pout or bib.
Example Sentences:
(1) Blood cells from Baltic salmon, Salmo salar, three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus, eel pout, Zoarces viviparus, crucian carp, Carassius carassius, African catfish, Clarias gariepinus, and reedfish, Calamoichthys calabaricus, were incubated with tritiated 11 beta-hydroxyandrostenedione (OHA) or 11-ketoandrostenedione (OA).
(2) She were remorseful all right,” pouted Mercedes, a woman who only has to raise one on-fleek eyebrow to garner a full confession.
(3) The narrative drivers are pretty slack – improbable dialogue ("I'm a very wealthy man, Miss Steele, and I have expensive and absorbing hobbies"); lame characterisation; irritating tics (a constant war between Steele's "subconscious", which is always fainting or putting on half-moon glasses, and her "inner goddess", who is forever pouting and stamping); and an internal monologue that goes like this … "Holy hell, he's hot!
(4) To ascertain the relative contributions of vascular distensibility and nonhomogeneous behavior within the pulmonary circulation to the distinctive nonlinear relationship between inflow pressure (Pin) and flow [pressure-flow (P-F) relationship] and between Pin and outflow pressure (Pout) at constant flow (Pin-Pout relationship), we developed a multibranched model in which the elastic behavior of, and forces acting on, individual branches can be varied independently.
(5) In this investigation of BRB permeability, we employed four parameters for the eye model: the inward permeability (Pin) and outward permeability (Pout) of the BRB; the diffusion coefficient in the posterior vitreous gel (D-p); and the plasma fluorescein concentration.
(6) Priapic gadabouts in peephole codpieces hey-nonny-no-ing past plates of glazed pig as smouldering flibbertigibbets pout and motion to their jugs.
(7) Release phenomena such as the grasp and pouting reflexes, as well as the stereotyped activities, were encountered significantly more frequently in patients with an organic brain syndrome than in the two other groups of patients.
(8) A doltish young buck, hairless and pouting, will clatter through the doors of an annoying boutique.
(9) These experiments indicate that the ocean pout AFP are a multigene family with protein structure different from any other known polypeptide antifreezes.
(10) In the first condition, subjects were presented with a smiling, pouting and a frowning face on each of 18 trials.
(11) When Time magazine published an Angelina Jolie op-ed on Darfur in 2009 , it wasn't illustrated with an image of refugees or of Sudan's president, Omar al-Bashir, but with a close-up of cat eyes and Angelina's famous pout.
(12) At least, I hope it's just a trilogy and this is the last, and they're not going to continue trailing around Europe (Greece this time), emoting, pouting and glaring self-pityingly into their authentic espressos.
(13) (iii) Six mutations alter pOUT activity, and establish that pOUT is the only IS10 promoter specifying the anti-sense RNA-OUT.
(14) A more southerly population of ocean pout from New Brunswick in which the circulating antifreeze protein levels are considerably lower has approximately one-quater as many antifreeze protein genes.
(15) In other cases sea raven and ocean pout hearts were treated with hydroxylamine, which renders myoglobin incapable of binding O2, and subjected to changing PO2 and afterload.
(16) The use of a double stapling technique in anterior resection of the rectum eliminates the necessity for a rectal stump pursestring and removes the problem of tissue pouting on the spindle of the circular EEA stapler when a voluminous rectum is pulled onto it with the pursestring.
(17) Myoglobin-rich sea raven hearts and myoglobin-poor ocean pout hearts were isolated and perfused at varying flow rates and under conditions of low and high oxygen demand to assess the role of myoglobin in oxygen extraction.
(18) The tonical cholinergic and adrenergic influence on the heart rate was investigated in vivo in seven species of marine teleosts (pollack, Pollachius pollachius; cuckoo wrasse, Labrus mixtus; ballan wrasse, Labrus berggylta; five-bearded rockling, Ciliata mustela; tadpole fish, Raniceps raninus; eel-pout, Zoarces viviparus and short-spined sea scorpion, Myoxocephalus scor pius) during rest and, in two of the species (P. pollachius and L. mixtus), also during moderate swimming exercise in a Blazka-type swim tunnel.
(19) She will be our discount dictator, perhaps, when her permatanned, pouting overlord has annexed us as a puppet state.
(20) Substantial homologies in amino acid sequence exist between the AFPs of Austrolycicthys and those of other Southern and Northern eel pouts.