Louts [noun]

"Mere louts," I said, thinking that at last I had found away to provoke her into an expression of her real opinions.

These drilled louts will guard us, should this terrible Invasion land.

We'd better bag the armchairs before these fishing louts take them.

And meanwhile these little louts of ours will be getting off home.

If you have in your place louts who tread on my toes, I am never in a mood to put up with it.

But a mob of country louts are drilling in a farmyard up the moorlands, to plunder and destroy us, if they can.

You see sir, the country louts about here are neither useful nor ornamental in a gentleman's house.

The ship was almost empty—save of course for the street-corner louts who hung about just below, on the deck itself.

Were it otherwise, sportsmen had better turn louts, and tackle makers take to cutting straight saplings in the woods.

They got those three strappin' louts that's all flat-footed or slab-sided or cross-eyed or somethin', and no good for the army.