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- noun The quality of being
louche , shifty ordisreputable .
Etymologies
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Examples
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There's a hip-swinging looseness to the grooves, and loucheness to the vocals four of the six members take turns singing lead, that's instantly uplifting.
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It would be easy to see Sage as selfish – and how I wish she had written a sequel to Bad Blood to describe how she combined motherhood with her work, as well as detailing the loucheness of her literary life – but I don't think she was.
Lorna Sage, my mum Emine Saner 2010
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Moments of jazzy loucheness offered an implicit reminder that Scott Joplin died the year this revised work was completed, 1917.
CBSO, Stephen Hough/Nelsons; Bamberg Symphony Orchestra/Nott – review 2012
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And yet he is already so much more acceptable in his grossness and loucheness, and fascinating for it, than he was even just a little more than a week ago.
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And yet he is already so much more acceptable in his grossness and loucheness, and fascinating for it, than he was even just a little more than a week ago.
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Seeing the underrated Randall playing anything other than a prissy neurotic is a rare treat, and here his character exuded a self-loathing loucheness so oily that if he had had a mustache, it would have slid off.
Partial Down Payment: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009
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There is nothing here of the loucheness of the old Le Cirque (now a private dining room), with its air-kissing blondes in Chanel suits ordering chicken without the skin.
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Bulgaria are bereft of the Marlboro-powered loucheness of Dimitar Berbatov, England toiled on forlornly without prodigious passer Paul Scholes.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Towards the end she was almost unrecognisable from the bouncy, suburban young woman who first rose to fame: stick thin apart from the surgical enhancements, with an erratic beehive hairdo and multiple tattoos; a cartoon of immoderate loucheness.
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A burgundy jacket paired with fluid, colour-blocked trousers had that cool loucheness.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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