lowlife
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7.7
- noun
- /ˈloʊˌlaɪf/
- Offensive
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- In the Rockaways, lowlifes were sneaking into clothing stores and cleaning out pizzerias.
- lowlifes and criminals
- thugs and lowlifes
- lowlife scum
DA Graham gives lowlife criminal life in prison.
- DA Graham gives lowlife criminal life in prison.
- Yeah, some lowlife desolate creep could have came up and went.
- I think they're absolute lowlife scumbags, sickos, psychopaths.
- I misunderstood by people who have plenty of time on their hands to misunderstand me because they are exactly where I once was, which is a lowlife lazy piece of shit.
Examples
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The police arrested several lowlifes who were involved in a series of burglaries.
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"I wouldn't call him the biggest lowlife in town," Linda went on.
Fiction book (2000) -
So what kind of lowlife shows up after a couple of months to mouth off?
Blog text (29) -
I'm tired of this lowlife!
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I want you to get the word out to every street hustler, to every lowlife in this town.
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Don't tell me those lowlifes have been calling again.
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I can't come up with words to adequately describe what a lowlife she is.
Blog text (14) -
The internet is full of sad, lowlife individuals who use cyberbullying to feel better about their lousy selves.
Blog text (20) -
He's a lowlife.
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And about how the men in her mom's life were all the same: alcoholics and lowlifes.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
168
9.5
A person who treats other people very badly and unfairly
104
1.6
A person who harms others on purpose or does wrong things
58
9.9
A rude person who treats others badly
51
6.5
A person who behaves dishonestly and hurts others by lying or stealing
40
8.2
An unpleasant person who lies or treats others badly
22
8.4
A person who does bad things or breaks the law
20
9.9
A person you strongly dislike and think is bad
20
9.2
A person who is mean and cannot be trusted
16
8.1
A person who behaves badly and cannot be trusted
10
7.2
A person who is mean or dishonest
9
8.9
A person who treats others very badly
9
8.2
A person who is dishonest and treats others badly
7
8.2
A person who is dishonest and treats others badly
2
8.0
A person who behaves badly or cheats others
1
8.9
A very bad person who treats other people cruelly
1
9.9
A rude word for a person people strongly dislike
1
9.9
A person who lies or cheats and treats others badly
1
9.2
An insulting word for a person who is dishonest or behaves badly
Antonyms
How Disreputable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Lowlife combines low and life, where low means 'base' or 'morally low', like the opposite of the 'high life'. So a lowlife is someone people see as morally bad or involved in crime.