But its learning curve has been painfully long, its manners uncouth and its coalition partners loutish.

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Such behavior is loutish, but it does not nearly meet the legal definition of sexual harassment.

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Listening to her Dutch friends, she assumed that Americans were fat, loutish, naive and sexually repressed.

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Greenaway, however, has a lot more in common with his loutish protagonist than he thinks.

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When it comes to energy, Vladimir Putin's Russia seems prone to loutish behaviour despite constant claims that Russia is a reliable partner.

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They are loutish and filthy, and the workers sterile females tolerate their presence for a few months a year, then systematically murder them.

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And the story itself doesn't end up a downer as the fable unfolds, telling how even a loutish, self-absorbed lawyer can ultimately find redemption.

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