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low road

American  

noun

Slang.
  1. a method, manner, etc., that is underhand, unscrupulous, or otherwise contemptible.


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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

Take the high road and you are irrelevant; take the low road and you cannot compete with the biggest bully and liar on the block.

From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 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

A drawing of a low road between high grasses.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt

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