lowlife
[ loh-lahyf ]
/ ˈloʊˌlaɪf /
noun, plural low·lifes.
a despicable person, especially a degenerate or immoral person.
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Examples from the Web for low-life
Gillian throws a rolling-pin at ye turnspit's head, and we call it low-life; but we looke for such unmannerlinesse in the kitchen.
They are now extinguished by the low-life novel; the most intolerable of all earthly realities.
Only, when some low-life like Dreer says this is a rotten school I don't care for it.
Left Tackle Thayer|Ralph Henry BarbourBut they are not more characteristic than his low-life pictures of itinerant players and singers.
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lowlife
/ (ˈləʊˌlaɪf) /
noun plural -lifes
slang
- a member or members of the underworld
- (as modifier)his lowlife friends
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low-life
"disreputable, vulgar," 1794, from low (adj.) + life; as a noun, "coarse, no-good person" it is recorded from 1911. Also lowlife.
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