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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

When he takes an especially low road and pushes Hugo to leave Jessalyn, Hugo responds with savvy and satisfying grace.

From New York Times Jun. 9, 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

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

The death of these little children may lead our whole Southland from the low road of man’s inhumanity to man to the high road of peace and brotherhood.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry

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