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lowlife
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low·life  (llf)
n. pl. low·lifes also low·lives (-lvz)
A person of low social status or moral character: "explores a world of London lowlifes in sinister prosperity" (Times Literary Supplement).
low-life adj.
lowlife [ˈləʊˌlaɪf]
n pl -lifes
Slang
a.  a member or members of the underworld
b.  (as modifier) his lowlife friends
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Noun1.lowlife - a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptiblelowlife - a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible; "only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"; "the British call a contemptible person a `git'"
dirty dog, git, puke, rotter, scum bag, skunk, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot, bum, crumb, rat
disagreeable person, unpleasant person - a person who is not pleasant or agreeable
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Not so many years ago lowlives looking for trouble would have been hauled before courts or had the living daylights scared out of them by coppers determined to keep their beat problem-free.
Why feral scum think they're untouchable by The Mirror (London, England)
THE spirit of Christmas has certainly not touched the souls of the lowlives who stole a Ninentendo Wii from a children's ward at Good Hope Hospital.
BIRMINGHAM Mail Our Say by Birmingham Mail (England)
PD, Hartburn *** *** IT'S just not fair that the yobs and lowlives of the town can have a designated evening named for themselves every year - Mischief Night.
Good old days? by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
 
 
 
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