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  • adverb In a louche manner.

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Examples

  • Through a doorway the breakfast room is courageously, louchely navy, lined with bookshelves, and has a communal rustic wooden table.

    B&B review: Ivydene House 2011

  • So the Brobdingnagian shooter will be sent to Scotland where it will rest louchely against a great tree in a sculpture park owned by her wealthy friends Mr and Mrs Wilson.

    Cornelia Parker: A history of violence 2010

  • The latter city is the setting for striking photographs of Messrs. Fenton and Hitchens, of a serious-looking Ian McEwan, and of the late, louchely handsome cartoonist Mark Boxer in his silk pyjamas.

    Swedish Portrait Photographer Excels at Exposing Contradictions 2009

  • A bit like Cleopatra bathing in goats milk surrounded by servants, Killoran would lie on his hostel bed watching television louchely eating crisps that's slightly where the Cleopatra comparison falls down, should have been grapes while Master Mop hoovered, swept up and dusted round him.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011

  • The response of the Victoria Police was to recommend that young indians should stop talking so loudly in their own language and should not be louchely and recklessly carrying things like iPods and laptops on their daily commute.

    Larvatus Prodeo 2009

  • They won quite a lot when England beat Croatia last month and now seem to be louchely traipsing into dangerous territory where everything could be made "a little more interesting".

    Blogposts | guardian.co.uk 2008

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