loutish
Lacking social grace
Loutish describes behavior that is crude, boorish, and lacking in manners or social grace.
A loutish person acts like a lout—clumsy, ill-mannered, and often aggressively uncouth: His loutish behavior at dinner embarrassed everyone.
The word suggests someone who should know better but doesn't care to act accordingly.
Stupidly clumsy
- churlishIll-mannered and rude
- uncouthLacking good manners
- crudeUnpolished, raw state
- coarseRough in texture
vulgar · ill-mannered · unmannerly · impolite · rude · cloddish · graceless · uncivilized
Lacking grace or ease
- bunglingMishandling through incompetence
- blunderingActing with clumsy incompetence
- ungainlyLacking ease of movement
- gawkyAwkwardly tall and clumsy
ham-handed · heavy-handed · maladroit · fumbling · bumbling · uncoordinated · clodhopping · galumphing
Aggressively violent in manner
- savageFierce and untamed
- barbaricSavagely cruel, uncivilized
- animalisticResembling brute nature
- feralWild after domestication
aggressive · belligerent · pugnacious · roughneck · brute · hooligan · rowdy · bullying
oafish
Stupidly clumsy
coarse · vulgar · ill-mannered · unmannerly · impolite · rude · cloddish · graceless · uncivilized · unrefined
awkward
Lacking grace or ease
- bunglingMishandling through incompetence
- blunderingActing with clumsy incompetence
- ungainlyLacking ease of movement
gawky · ham-handed · heavy-handed · maladroit · fumbling · bumbling · uncoordinated · clodhopping · galumphing · stumbling
thuggish
Aggressively violent in manner
- savageFierce and untamed
- barbaricSavagely cruel, uncivilized
- animalisticResembling brute nature
feral · aggressive · belligerent · pugnacious · roughneck · brute · hooligan · rowdy · bullying · menacing
- unrefinedcrude, coarse, rough, unpolished, uncouth
- funnyfunny, comical, hilarious, humorous, amusing
- rudenessrude, discourtesy, impolite, rudeness, disrespect
loutishrefined
Purified or cultured
polished · genteel · well-bred · gentlemanly · cultivated
loutishcourteous
Showing respectful consideration
polite · civil · respectful · considerate · decent