lowlife
[loh-lahyf]
noun, plural low·lifes.
a despicable person, especially a degenerate or immoral person.
Origin of lowlife
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Related Words for low-life
wretched, vile, contemptible, reprehensible, loathsome, degrading, shameful, disreputable, disgraceful, abject, awful, base, beastly, cheap, detestable, dirty, down, ignominious, infamous, insignificantExamples from the Web for low-life
Historical Examples of low-life
Only, when some low-life like Dreer says this is a rotten school I don't care for it.
Left Tackle ThayerRalph Henry Barbour
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.
But they are not more characteristic than his low-life pictures of itinerant players and singers.
The Standard Galleries - HollandEsther Singleton
They are now extinguished by the low-life novel; the most intolerable of all earthly realities.
lowlife
noun plural -lifes
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