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louche

/loosh/US // luʃ //UK // (luːʃ) //

狮子座,狮子头,狮子会,狮子座的人

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : dubious; shady; disreputable.

Examples

  • From this louche improbable source pours music of sublime beauty without one false note.

  • Both vaporiums I visited included areas to hang out it, like the louche opium dens of old.

  • The opalescent, minty-green louche billows under the ice water droplets.

  • Akkari and Laban had long been disaffected with life in Denmark, a country they saw as louche and irreligious.

  • Temperamentally speaking, Augusta is so small “c” conservative it makes George Will look louche by comparison.

  • M. de Montrond talks of returning to Louche to put his poor body in a bath.

  • His conduct, as the Juge d'Instruction told him, without mincing matters, was undeniably louche.

  • "Young Mr. Richie Gardiner seemed louche" she observed after a silence which Warren seemed willing indefinitely to prolong.

  • Clarendon told me this was only one of many instances in which the conduct of the French had been very louche and insincere.

  • The aunt will refuse; she will think the whole proceeding very louche!