Explore Louche through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like shady or disreputable. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Louche meaning
- Of questionable taste or morality; decadent.
- Not reputable or decent.
- Unconventional and slightly disreputable in an attractive manner; raffish, rakish.
Synonyms of Louche
Using Louche
- The main meaning on this page is: Of questionable taste or morality; decadent. | Not reputable or decent. | Unconventional and slightly disreputable in an attractive manner; raffish, rakish.
- Useful related words include: shady, disreputable.
Context around Louche
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 4 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 11 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Louche
- In this selection, "louche" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, agreeably, sleazy, less, places, lifestyles and eldorado stand out and add context to how "louche" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a rather louche eldorado and dances and louche lifestyles the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "louche" sits close to words such as aami, aat and abada, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with louche
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
She eventually meets Emily (Lively), a world-weary, louche, blithely snide, stiletto-strutting, Manhattan-based professional fashionista. (17 words)
It’s less louche than Waters’s romp, although the great dame has suffered her fair share of hardship. (19 words)
He was in Vienna, then Paris, in the 1920s, where he drew the louche habitués of cafes, theaters, jazz clubs. (20 words)
Getting out surely means hunting down a good time so grab your date and install yourself in one of those agreeably louche places where everyone seems in the mood for mischief. (31 words)
Like before him, Cameron's persona — a louche caricature rubbing up against tropes of toxic masculinity — feels like a construct, but one through which he can reveal uncomfortable truths about himself. (31 words)
With their knock-kneed dances and louche lifestyles, the flappers adopted the bob for the freedom it gave them from the tyranny of combing, curling and dressing long locks. (29 words)
Example sentences (11)
He was in Vienna, then Paris, in the 1920s, where he drew the louche habitués of cafes, theaters, jazz clubs.
Getting out surely means hunting down a good time so grab your date and install yourself in one of those agreeably louche places where everyone seems in the mood for mischief.
With their knock-kneed dances and louche lifestyles, the flappers adopted the bob for the freedom it gave them from the tyranny of combing, curling and dressing long locks.
British officers on leave followed, and enjoyed their stay in what was by the standards of the time a rather louche Eldorado.
Fosse’s splayed limbs, metronomic body parts, red lips, and bowler hats are quintessentially Fosse, but it’s his whole sleazy, louche, dirty-sexy vibe that’s ubiquitous.
It’s less louche than Waters’s romp, although the great dame has suffered her fair share of hardship.
Like before him, Cameron's persona — a louche caricature rubbing up against tropes of toxic masculinity — feels like a construct, but one through which he can reveal uncomfortable truths about himself.
Waller-Bridge is the only person on stage: red jumper, black jeans, hair semi-up but with a straggling I’m-louche-and-available lock.
But Zula is not a rustic; she’s a louche modern with uncanny musical gifts and preternatural powers of performance: the honesty of sorrow of her singing is devastating.
She eventually meets Emily (Lively), a world-weary, louche, blithely snide, stiletto-strutting, Manhattan-based professional fashionista.
Maurice Louche 1987 Italy had been running road competitions since 1895, when a reliability trial was run from Turin to Asti and back.