as in low
belonging to the class of people of low social or economic rank
photographs of the low-life residents of postwar Paris
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Recent Examples of low-life
Megan McCluskey, TIME, 11 June 2024
The sad irony is that migrant workers contribute far more to the economy and well-being of this city than this lowlife ever has.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 9 Feb. 2024
The rampant smut that blighted Times Square and the constellation of lowlifes who orbited around it were tackled in that neighborhood in the mid ’90s.
—Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
What kind of a complete scumbag lowlife piece of garbage does this?
—Dallas News, 25 May 2022
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Noun
Two King's Landing lowlifes known as Blood (Sam C. Wilson) and Cheese (Mark Stobbart) will play a grisly role in that plot.
—Megan McCluskey, TIME, 11 June 2024
The sad irony is that migrant workers contribute far more to the economy and well-being of this city than this lowlife ever has.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 9 Feb. 2024
The rampant smut that blighted Times Square and the constellation of lowlifes who orbited around it were tackled in that neighborhood in the mid ’90s.
—Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
What kind of a complete scumbag lowlife piece of garbage does this?
—Dallas News, 25 May 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for low-life
Adjective
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Despite multiple promising routines in the practice sessions, Lee’s low score of 11.800 was not enough to send the Olympic Champion to Azerbaijan.—
Caroline Price,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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But after spending most of the day under low stratus clouds, patchy fog and coastal drizzle caused by onshore flow, New Yorkers will likely need an umbrella for the evening hours, as a cold front coming from the west is expected to dump up to three-quarters of an inch of rain.—
Muri Assunção,
New York Daily News,
20 Mar. 2025
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Giacomo Casanova, who lived from 1725 to 1798, was a lawyer, a writer, an adventurer, a gambler and a scoundrel who found himself on the wrong side of the law.—
Ray Mark Rinaldi,
The Denver Post,
20 Jan. 2025
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Now that movie’s writer-director, Leigh Whannell, has returned to bring another classic fiend into the 21st century, with Poor Things scoundrel Christopher Abbott as a family man who starts feeling a little hairy after a full-moon encounter at his childhood home.—
A.A. Dowd,
Vulture,
6 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The unfortunate wretch makes an exciting escape, killing her captor in the process.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
18 Feb. 2025
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As Blake transforms into a swollen, oozing wretch who gnaws frantically on his own wounds, his family appears as glowing-eyed aliens, their words a jumble of indecipherable sounds.—
Jeannette Catsoulis,
New York Times,
16 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Below that sits the pedestrian CLK 500 and plebeian CLK 350.—
Jeremy Korzeniewski,
Robb Report,
26 Feb. 2025
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Across the lake, on the plebeian side, up the shoreline a mile or so, in the heart of downtown West Palm Beach, stand twin 32-story towers dubbed Trump Plaza of the Palm Beaches.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
8 Jan. 2025
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In Lynch’s festering neo-noir mystery from 1987, Hopper plays a chronic villain perpetually sipping from a tank of amyl nitrate and handing out hits as a way to manipulate his henchmen.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
14 Mar. 2025
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Quinn is such a mustache-twirling villain throughout that his interactions with Reacher feel overly cartoonish.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
Noun
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After their car is stolen, the group of rascals must resort to some hilarious hijinks to get past the finish line.—
Kara Nesvig,
Parents,
12 Mar. 2025
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The black rascal was giving something what-for, and that prompted a gobble only 200 yards from me, followed by another and another.—
Larry Dablemont,
Outdoor Life,
5 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Until then, there are the Razzies, an ignoble accolade marking the very worst movies and acting performances of the year.—
Marco della Cava,
USA TODAY,
28 Feb. 2025
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But on this southern front of the Trump empire, Palm Beach County, Donald Trump is flirting with ignoble defeat.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
8 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Estrada praised his team for going after white supremacist gangs, fentanyl dealers, environmental polluters and other miscreants while favoring no party and no ideology.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Jan. 2025
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Brothers Jeff and Steven McDonald helped put SoCal punk on the map in the late 1970s as teenage miscreants in Redd Kross, and now their unique tale is being told in the documentary Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story, which will be screening throughout the U.S. in December and January.—
SPIN Staff,
SPIN,
20 Nov. 2024
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“Low-life.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/low-life. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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