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Louche Loosh Adjective Questionable Character Dubious Disreputable.  French

Front louche \LOOSH\
Back adjective
Of questionable character; dubious; disreputable. 

[From French louche (cross-eyed), from Latin lusca, feminine of luscus (one-eyed).]

"They wanted her to be a dancer, but the teenage Bardot fell in with the louche and devious film-maker Roger Vadim, and became the notorious Girl In A Bikini instead." - Adam Sweeting; Zouzou Exposed; The Guardian (UK); Nov 7, 1998. 

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