low road

noun

, Slang.

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

“I am going to leave him the low road that he has been taking the whole campaign,” Cianci added.

Political candidates have never been strangers on the low road.

The Triune God will be our dwelling place even while our feet walk the low road of simple duty here among men.

The whole place has been an island, but it is now joined to the main land by a low road to Roxbury.

Now we'll twitch her down the hill a piece—she lies just about right—and get her home by the low road.

The high road was the direct road to Lower Claybury, the low road a detour to the same.

They were now upon the low road leading parallel to the beach, and towards the end of Inverleith Row.

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