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lowlife
[ loh-lahyf ]
/ ˈloʊˌlaɪf /
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noun, plural low·lifes.
a despicable person, especially a degenerate or immoral person.
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Lowlands, Low Latin, low-level, low-level language, low-level waste, lowlife, lowlight, lowlihead, low-loader, lowly, low-lying
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How to use lowlife in a sentence
In any subset of humanity, you’ll find grifters, narcissistic man-children, and other lowlifes.
He’ll do anything he can to hold onto his land, even as a variety of challengers, from nearby tribes of Indigenous people to big-city land developers to assorted random lowlifes, attempt to take it from him.
Yellowstone is one of TV’s biggest hits. What’s Yellowstone, anyway?|Emily VanDerWerff|November 5, 2021|VoxSniping from lowlifes like Stone notwithstanding, that is a pretty respectable record.
Desperate, Deranged DeSantis Devolves Into Dumb Troll|Ruben Navarrette Jr.|November 5, 2021|The Daily BeastBecause Riesman had access to some of these lowlifes, the book is a little heavy with awful details of Lee’s twilight years.
‘True Believer’ tries to capture Stan Lee. It isn’t easy.|Glen David Gold|February 18, 2021|Washington Post
British Dictionary definitions for lowlife
lowlife
/ (ˈləʊˌlaɪf) /
noun plural -lifes
slang
- a member or members of the underworld
- (as modifier)his lowlife friends
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