as in notorious
not respectable
it was a seedy neighborhood of louche nightclubs a comedian playing a louche lounge singer
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Recent Examples of louche
The film is also the director’s love letter to a bygone Los Angeles era, a lost world of louche glamor, with actors, directors, hippies, and hustlers roaming the city’s studio lots, canyons, and hills.
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Jay Glennie, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2025
Years earlier, Easy made that kind of impression on Al Pacino’s Mickey Albano, a louche local personality who books talent for the Wynn casino.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 13 Sep. 2025
By the end of the song, Mars’s excursion into sleaze-funk turns into a full-on Sexyy Red chant-along, with the whole crew turned into a louche league of lip-licking libertines.
—Jon Pareles, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
Dolce & Gabbana showcased beautiful examples in their Spring/Summer 2025 show this past June, as did Amiri, offering another glimpse at a more sartorially louche future.
—Caroline Reilly, Robb Report, 4 Oct. 2024
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Jay Glennie, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2025
Years earlier, Easy made that kind of impression on Al Pacino’s Mickey Albano, a louche local personality who books talent for the Wynn casino.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 13 Sep. 2025
By the end of the song, Mars’s excursion into sleaze-funk turns into a full-on Sexyy Red chant-along, with the whole crew turned into a louche league of lip-licking libertines.
—Jon Pareles, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
Dolce & Gabbana showcased beautiful examples in their Spring/Summer 2025 show this past June, as did Amiri, offering another glimpse at a more sartorially louche future.
—Caroline Reilly, Robb Report, 4 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for louche
Adjective
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This is Bali in the slow lane, devoid of Ubud‘s notorious traffic jams and souvenir stores, and with barely any other hotels in the surrounding area.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
31 Mar. 2026
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Around that time Uthmeier was one of the forces behind the construction of notorious Alligator Alcatraz, the immigration detention facility located in the Everglades inside the Big Cypress National Preserve.—
Greg Cote
Updated March 30,
Miami Herald,
30 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The public had little awareness of the U-2 until the infamous Gary Powers incident in 1960 when a U-2 was shot down by the Soviets inside their territory, which was a bit of a shock in more ways than one.—
David Szondy
March 29,
New Atlas,
29 Mar. 2026
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Taxstone’s scheme came during a particularly turbulent year at the infamous federal jail, which saw a brutal, caught-on video stabbing and two murders in 2024.—
John Annese,
New York Daily News,
29 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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In addition to serving as a showrunner, Levy stars as Nicky, an openly gay pastor who gets wrapped up in a shady underworld plot with his flailing sister Morgan (Taylor Ortega).—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 Apr. 2026
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They get captured by Hungarian gangsters and have to fight (and kill) their way out of an inn run by a shady former dance prodigy (Uma Thurman).—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
31 Mar. 2026
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Broidy’s criminal convictions notwithstanding, his allegations against Chalker appeared plausible.—
David D. Kirkpatrick,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
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In October, the Justice Department filed criminal charges against James that have since been thrown out successive times by federal judges.—
Sarah D. Wire,
USA Today,
29 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The Michigan State Police said Robert Wilson, 44, of Gaylord, was arrested on March 25 and lodged at the Otsego County Jail on one charge each of accosting a minor for immoral purposes and using a computer to commit a crime.—
Paula Wethington,
CBS News,
27 Mar. 2026
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When the status quo is fundamentally evil and dysfunctional, then Trimming is immoral.—
David Brooks,
The Atlantic,
25 Mar. 2026
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“Louche.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/louche. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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