low road
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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No. Do we have to take the low road?
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2020
But someone took the low road of providing the New Yorker details of the accusation contained in a letter from the woman to Ms. Feinstein.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2018
“I will not take the low road to the highest office in this land. I want the presidency in the best way, not the worst way.”
From Washington Times ● Aug. 25, 2018
By degree, every one of them lays bare for us the Gabriels’ latticework of friction and connection, and not ever by taking the theatrical low road, the one that wends its way through histrionics.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 9, 2017
You’ll tak’ the high road and I'll tak’ the low road, what?
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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