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Adjective
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Some might consider this observation churlish when her biggest rival, ITV, was criticized for abandoning the playing field on Christmas Day after scheduling a parade of repeats.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
6 Jan. 2025 -
The British series, which debuted in 2022, follows Oscar winner Gary Oldman’s churlish and disheveled Jackson Lamb as the leader of a team of disgraced and disowned MI5 agents scrappily and shabbily getting the job done.—
Trey Williams,
The Hollywood Reporter,
9 Aug. 2024
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To even suggest that not all societies wanted peace was seen as vulgar and uncouth.—
Uri Kurlianchik,
National Review,
25 Feb. 2025
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Generally speaking, northern clubs were work teams that fielded working-class players, while southern clubs were affiliated with famous schools and featured young gentlemen who would not dream of doing something as uncouth as taking payment for playing a game.—
Matt Slater,
The Athletic,
4 Feb. 2025
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He's outgrown being shown any leniency or 'given a second chance' with such arrogant, boorish behavior.—
Erin Clack,
People.com,
27 Feb. 2025
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But some of it is just too clumsy, in particular any scene with the boorish Scott (Patrick Wilson), Eve’s alcoholic music producer hubby.—
Randy Myers,
The Mercury News,
20 Feb. 2025
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But Victor leans less into clownish mortification than her predecessors, making room instead for a delicate quietude and sincerity.—
Jon Frosch,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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Redheads often fielded comments related to having a hot temper, being clownish, weirdness, Irishness, not capable of being in the sun, being wild (among women), wimpy (among men), and intellectually superior.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
19 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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While the premise is ostensibly a tour through the different eras of New York City, the real purpose was to tour the different eras of SNL casts through this big, brassy prism.—
Joe Berkowitz,
Vulture,
17 Feb. 2025
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On this Jimmy McHugh cover, her tone is brassy, and clearly influenced by rock singers — but more charming for it.—
Kristen S. Hé,
Vulture,
25 Oct. 2024
Adjective
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Even Lochlan and Piper, who think of themselves as more enlightened than their loutish brother and materialistic parents, have a lot of Victoria in them.—
Noel Murray,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2025
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Every great festival lineup needs an eccentric art-pop groundbreaker and some loutish guys who write anthems.—
Al Shipley,
Vulture,
6 Dec. 2024
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The caressing reading better showed off Cho’s pianissimo palette than the brash Prokofiev.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Mar. 2025
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The film's brash, documentary-style production perfectly captured Hackman's character, a seething, sadistic NYC cop seeking to bust a ring of heroin smugglers — like Ahab on the hunt for the white whale.—
David Morgan,
CBS News,
27 Feb. 2025
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But the football field breeds impolite behavior, on every snap actually.—
Sean Gregory,
TIME,
6 Feb. 2025
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Many filmmakers try to disguise their less socially acceptable prejudices, their impolite fears, dislikes and worse, but Lynch always seemed unafraid or maybe uninterested or just unaware about what others thought of his uglier visions.—
Manohla Dargis,
New York Times,
17 Jan. 2025
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“Clodhopping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clodhopping. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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