- pl. -·lifes· a vulgar, coarse, or undignified personalso low′lif·er
- lowlifes collectively or their milieu
of or characteristic of a lowlife; low-class
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lowlife
noun
pl. low·lifes, also low·livesA person of low social status or moral character: “explores a world of London lowlifes in sinister prosperity” ( Times Literary Supplement )
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- low′-life′
adjective
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Noun
(plural lowlifes or lowlives)
- An untrustworthy, despicable, or disreputable person, especially one suspected of being a criminal.
- They say all the lowlifes used to hang out at the docks and plot their despicable crimes, before being elected to public office.
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