low-lifes

A policy of, informally, deporting the low-lifes and ignoring the solid noncitizens strikes me as less than ideal; but not particularly dangerous.

Boing Boing 2009

I'm looking forward to the day when subpoenas come down for Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and a host of other low-lifes to be tried as war criminals.

Ex-AG Gonzales lands Texas Tech job 2009

Crime has no color -- as my mentor Roy Wilklns of the NAACP used to say: "A punk is a punk"; and I will add that low-lifes who are career criminals, who commit violent felonies, belong in prison -- rather than placed ahead of the long line for employment training and scarce jobs.

Michael Meyers: Mayor Bloomberg's Discriminatory Young Black and Latino Men's Initiative Michael Meyers 2011

The script is about a couple of low-lifes who dabble in explosives living in a small town who get the brilliant idea to have someone rob a bank for them by strapping a bomb around him and threatening to blow it up if he doesn't get the money.

Aziz Ansari Cast in Ruben Fleischer’s 30 Minutes or Less. Film Inspired by Real Events? | /Film 2010

Crime has no color -- as my mentor Roy Wilklns of the NAACP used to say: "A punk is a punk"; and I will add that low-lifes who are career criminals, who commit violent felonies, belong in prison -- rather than placed ahead of the long line for employment training and scarce jobs.

Michael Meyers: Mayor Bloomberg's Discriminatory Young Black and Latino Men's Initiative Michael Meyers 2011

And I too tripped over that “low-lives” sentence (by the way, I thought the iidiom was “low-lifes”).

AN UNDEAD DAY AT THE SPA • by Stephanie Scarborough 2010

April 16th, 2010 4: 14 pm ET this is so sad. i really believed that mitt was one of the really intelligent and electable republicans. why he would lower himself to this pathetic tea party fringe, i will never understand. come on mitt, you're a brilliant business man and a classy guy, leave these low-lifes to fight for themselves.

Romney backs Rubio in Florida primary battle 2010

Less well-known is Greene's 1938 "Brighton Rock," a pulp-fictional tale of low-lifes scuttling about the English beach resort, which has now been given a glorious gloss by director Rowan son of Roland Joffe.

'Idiot Brother': Silly, Satirical and Smart John Anderson 2011

So “low-lifes in wife beaters” would have been perfectly fine.

AN UNDEAD DAY AT THE SPA • by Stephanie Scarborough 2010

Human Rights Act - Are you proud of the way the HRA is used to allow terrorists, terrorist supporters and assorted low-lifes to stay in the UK and claim compensation, the Afghan hijackers 'are just one example.

Gordon Brown and the suspension of normal politics Not a sheep 2009