Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Leading a low or mean life; vulgar.
- Pertaining to or characteristic of low or vulgar life; mean; shabby: as, low-lived manners; a low-lived trick.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Characteristic of, or like, one bred in a low and vulgar condition of life; mean; dishonorable; contemptible.
Examples
“Adams's hacks called Jefferson "a mean-spirited, low-lived ... son of a half-breed Indian squaw sired by a Virginia mulatto father.”
“Jefferson, in turn was described as “a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father.””
“Jefferson is a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia Mulatto father”
“Adams's hacks called Jefferson "a mean-spirited, low-lived... son of a half-breed Indian squaw sired by a Virginia mulatto father.”
“There was in Paris at that epoch, in a low-lived old lodging in the Rue”
“Dick Middlemas had been urged forward, in his suit to Menie Gray, by his observing how much her partner, a booby laird, had been captivated by her; and she was now lowered in his esteem, because an impudent low-lived coxcomb had presumed to talk of her with disparagement.”
“He is a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father." -- said by supporters of John Adams, of Thomas Jefferson, during the 1800 election.”
“Jefferson was called "a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father.”
“We are underbred and low-lived and illiterate; and in this respect I confess I do not make any very broad distinction between the illiterateness of my townsman who cannot read at all and the illiterateness of him who has learned to read only what is for children and feeble intellects.”
“She further remarked that the wife was indeed rather low-lived; but that the husband was one of the best-behaved, politest, and civilest men in the world.”
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