(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”.
Troublemaker
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In his V-neck sweater, dad jeans and white New Balance sneakers, Michael Lewis doesn’t look like a troublemaker.
(2) Moreover, the state-controlled Chinese media have in a series of broadcasts denounced a number of detained “suspects” as members of a crime syndicate engaging in “rights-defence-style troublemaking”, and paraded some of those detained “confessing” to wrongdoing before they have even been publicly indicted.
(3) Some kids we thought were complete troublemakers were just angry and upset because they’d had no food since the day before.
(4) But, while I can't stress enough that I don't wish to be a troublemaker, there is a slight problem with the maths.
(5) He has earned a reputation as something of a troublemaker in government, often having to be hauled back into line by the president or party officials after speaking out on controversial issues.
(6) I have seen the organisational response to the full spectrum of sexual harassment and violence, including rape … and I would say now that if I was raped during a country visit I would not report it to my organisation.” Speaking out meant being labelled a feminist troublemaker, the source said.
(7) Crow's public image as a troublemaker and bully boy was misplaced.
(8) One demonstrator trapped behind police lines told Guardian Unlimited: "It's ridiculous, there are no obvious troublemakers here, it's just a mix of ordinary people and tourists, and we want to go home."
(9) Political activists are now often cast as troublemakers or foreign agents and hundreds of the young activists who sparked the revolt four years ago are either in prison on charges of breaking a new protest law or have left the country.
(10) When Blair Peach was struck on the head during the demonstration against the National Front, he was a victim not only of the police but of a barely suppressed public attitude – encouraged by a large portion of the media – that people who went on such protests were troublemakers who deserved all that they got – and if police officers cracked a few heads, then they had probably been grievously provoked by the troublemakers.
(11) With an iron will, she kept him away from troublemakers and kept him busy.
(12) They should not mix with the radicals and troublemakers and be incited or used by others to commit any illegal acts.” Several reporters at the scene described being shoved and manhandled by hostile police.
(13) One elderly neighbour described him as a troublemaker since his teens but said he became more prominent after 2011 through his links with Islamist militia commanders in the city.
(14) Has it become an unwitting accomplice in silencing and removing "troublemakers"?
(15) If you get in trouble, that doesn't mean you're a troublemaker, it means you need to try harder to behave.
(16) Photograph: Helen Maybanks However, had Homegrown been pulled as a result of threats from some fringe Islamist organisation, we’d now be celebrated as this generation’s Salman Rushdies – courageous defenders of free speech fighting off conservative forces from within our imagined communities, rather than as troublemakers.
(17) She said that when she complained to her first sergeant, she was told she was a troublemaker.
(18) As one panellist marvelled: "She's a real troublemaker.
(19) Nimeiri started transferring the troublemakers to small towns,” said El Sheikh, who worked as the railway’s accountant for 30 years.
(20) The surge in support for Corbyn has prompted warnings that “troublemakers” on the left and the right are abusing Labour’s new leadership rules by signing up as supporters so they can vote for Corbyn.