lowlife

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  1. noun A person of low social status or moral character: "explores a world of London lowlifes in sinister prosperity” (Times Literary Supplement).

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  • The constable took you for a lowlife because of your arrest record, and anything that kid knows, the Stegmans know, too. —  EQMM, June 2005
  • Razor Ray Brady was a lot of things—a lowlife, a psychopath, and a stone-cold killer—but he was also very good at what he did. —  EQMM, Sep/Oct 2005
  • Puckett was a lowlife, making a fortune dividing other men's assets and sleeping with their wives. —  EQMM,August2008
  • He was once a lowlife, got done for knifing somebody outside an East End pub. —  dummy 3
  • Once a lowlife, who liked to play at being an artist and a Bohemian, told me that I was a disgustingly happy person. —  EQMM,June2008
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