a. rare. [F. louche squinting, OF. lousche, orig. only fem.:L. lusca, fem. of luscus one-eyed.] Oblique, not straightforward.
1819. Lady Morgan, Autobiog. (1859), 318. There is something louche about him, which does not accord with the abandon of careless, intimate intercourse.
1849. Thackeray, Pendennis, lxix. Theres something louche regarding him.