What's the difference between loutish and routish?

Loutish


Definition:

  • (a.) Clownish; rude; awkward.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Simon Rush, president of the GMB union’s professional drivers branch, said: “Whatever the reason for this loutish verbal attack on a working person by this politician, it is unacceptable behaviour, not only on the road but in any workplace.
  • (2) In so far as can be gleaned , the 120,000 families whose feral ways Mr Pickles and the prime minister like pointing to were totted up using outdated surveys concerned not with the school skiving, crime and loutishness that dominated yesterday's spin.
  • (3) "We had these huge, ill-mannered, loutish interruptions, upper-middle-class people who should have known better," he recalled.
  • (4) Promising an immediate inquiry, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson, condemned what he called "thuggish, loutish behaviour by criminals" and conceded his officers had failed to plan for violence.
  • (5) Not so, now, for the LSE has been the unfortunate venue for the latest in a long line of recent “lad culture” scandals that have seen many a male student reprimanded for sexist, loutish behaviour.
  • (6) Loutish Tory MPs once heckled the former ship's steward John Prescott with shouts of "Large gin and tonic".
  • (7) Then Sandler boarded the Jennifer Aniston merry-go-round of filmic failure in Just Go With It, wherein he proved himself no better at squiring La Jenn than his loutish predecessor Gerard Butler.
  • (8) Culture is nowhere to be found, except with disgraced alcoholic Doc Tyden (Donald Pleasence), who talks of Socrates as loutish men punch each other in rear of shot.
  • (9) There are no Fantas or Magnums on ice, no sellers of souvenirs, no racks of postcards, no loutish boomboxes, no plastic rubbish, no deckchairs for rent, no jet-skis to annoy me, no windsurfing lessons not to take.
  • (10) The Drudge Report, a powerful news aggregator popular with conservatives, linked to the Yucatan Times article with some commenters hailed the tourists for avenging alleged Mexican loutishness in the US.
  • (11) Yes, he was loutish in what he said and is not fit to be a parliamentary candidate, but I don’t think there was anything malicious or evil about what he was trying to do,” he said.
  • (12) Revelling in loutish displays, he brandished a pistol in the Serbian parliament, threatening to shoot a political opponent.

Routish


Definition:

  • (a.) Uproarious; riotous.

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