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low-life
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of lowlife English)
Wikipedia
A low-life or lowlife is a term for a person who is considered morally unacceptable by their community. Examples of people who are often called "lowlifes" are thieves, drug dealers, hustlers, freeloaders, scammers, gangsters, drug users, alcoholics, thugs, underage mothers, prostitutes and pimps.
Often, the term is used as an indication of disapproval of antisocial or destructive behaviors, usually bearing a connotation of contempt and derision. This usage of the word dates to 1911.
Usage examples of "low-life".
After all, if a load of low-life bashers could stand to be in that place then so could he, by Ruthia.
The metroplex was crammed with smelly crowds of humans, dark breeds, and low-life elves.
His future wife needed to know what sort of low-life she was getting married to, and the world needed to know what sort of man Alex Carides actually was.
All four Sydneians sat a moment in silence, looking down their noses at the Melburnian low-life.
Sydneians sat a moment in silence, looking down their noses at the Melburnian low-life.
It runs down over her tiny chainmail bikini, a garment that displays almost all of her physique and guarantees a healthy flow of tips from the dockers, sailors, Barbarian mercenaries and other low-life who drink in this tavern.
The total number of Low-lives included perhaps two hundred, far more men than women, with a handful of children as quiet and alert as the adults.
Are you and your fellow low-lives in the kitchens planning to bet on the juggling competition?
If you are patient, I'm sure the newspapers will carry every detail of the investigation, arrest and eventual acquittal of all the low-life scum punks involved.
I saw a piece of low-life shite - a child-killer actually - I saw him resisting arrest.
Im just your run-of-the-mill low-life tycoon trying to stack the deck.