Word:
Louche
Status:
Adjective
Meaning:
Not decent or reputable
Sentences:
1) Before gentrification, it was the sort of louche neighbourhood where one could find illegal drugs.
2) They were a bunch of louche adolescents.
Origin:
French, meaning literally 'cross-eyed', 'squint eyes', from Latin luscus meaning 'blind in one eye'.
First use:
1819
Synonyms:
discredible, disgraceful, infamous, shoody, shy, disrespectable
Antonyms:
respectful, honourable.
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