down-and-outer

So they kind of related to all that, I guess, the songs I chose, very little of love songs, very few - mostly, you know, songs about the down-and-outer.

Johnny Cash: A Ghost Rider, Still Stirring Souls 2010

He possessed at least one quality of a successful undercover store detective: With his faded jeans and what might have been a crew cut four or five months ago, he looked like a down-and-outer who wasn't above a bit of shoplifting himself if the opportunity came his way.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

He possessed at least one quality of a successful undercover store detective: With his faded jeans and what might have been a crew cut four or five months ago, he looked like a down-and-outer who wasn't above a bit of shoplifting himself if the opportunity came his way.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

It was enough that K-L was a freesoil planet none of the Concerns or Starcorps cared a damn about, where nobody asked a down-and-outer nosy questions and the living was easy.

Perseus Spur May, Julian, 1931- 1998

No wonder he resents (or is it idolizes?) a faux down-and-outer like Mr. Waits; Mr. Pahl is much more convincingly weird.

Twenty Songs From 1997: A Mixed Tape With Shake Appeal 1997

No wonder he resents (or is it idolizes?) a faux down-and-outer like Mr. Waits; Mr. Pahl is much more convincingly weird.

Twenty Songs From 1997: A Mixed Tape With Shake Appeal 1997

The effect was like watching a master class with Laurence Olivier, in which the actor transformed himself, without stripping a gear, into a tragic Shakespearean hero, a seedy John Osborne down-and-outer and a fop according to Congreve.

NYT > Home Page By BEN BRANTLEY 2011

The effect was like watching a master class with Laurence Olivier, in which the actor transformed himself, without stripping a gear, into a tragic Shakespearean hero, a seedy John Osborne down-and-outer and a fop according to Congreve.

NYT > Home Page By BEN BRANTLEY 2011

Too many of the interiors are still Gordon Willis dark without Godfather justification, the tomb of Don's bachelor apartment now that he and Betty have divorced looking like the shabby last stop of a down-and-outer in a transient hotel than the temporary way-station of a studly creative sensation taking Madison Avenue by storm and exerting fascination wherever he scowls.

the latest from teenvogue.com 2010

That novel, which we might call a postmodern literary noir, revolves around a private eye with Tourette syndrome; in "The Little Sleep," the detective narrator, a South Boston down-and-outer named Mark Genevich, suffers from narcolepsy, which makes him fall asleep at the most inconvenient times.

unknown title 2009