louts

Ill-mannered brutes

Louts is the plural of lout—a rough, crude, or ill-mannered person, typically male.

The word suggests someone uncouth and possibly aggressive: The pub was full of drunken louts.

A lager lout is British slang for a rowdy beer drinker causing public disturbance.

criminal

thug

Violent criminal

goon · vandal · delinquent · miscreant · roughneck · tough · bruiser · heavy · enforcer · skinhead

boorish

oaf

Stupid clumsy person

  • boorRude, insensitive person
  • churlRude, surly person
  • clodEarth lump or dolt

brute · buffoon · dolt · ignoramus · philistine · cad · cretin · yokel · slob · lummox

youth

teenagers

People aged thirteen to nineteen

young offenders · schoolboys · tearaways · layabouts · ne'er-do-wells · street kids · gangs · punks · rebels

rowdy

brawler

Habitual fist-fighter

disorderly · raucous · unruly · boisterous · riotous · carouser · reveler · yobbo · football hooligans · street gangs

Categories
Opposites
refinement and manners

loutsgentlemen

Men of refinement

ladies · aristocrats · courtiers · gallants · sophisticates

intelligence and awareness

loutsintellectuals

People of scholarly pursuits

scholars · sages · savants · bright sparks · wits

social class and breeding

loutsaristocrats

Hereditary ruling class

nobles · gentry · patricians · blue bloods · elites

Phrases
Family

lout, loutish, loutishness, loutishly

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated G