1
: a person of low social status
2
: a person of low moral character
low-life
adjective
Examples of lowlife in a Sentence
hanging around with a bunch of lowlifes
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The groper was a lowlife—a deranged doctor, bent on harvesting astronaut semen for pernicious procreative ends.
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Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2025
That’s where detective Kang Dong-woo, played by Jo Woo-jin, searches for his teen daughter and ultimately enlists help from the lowlife fixer Yoon Gil-ho, played by Ji Chang-wook.
—Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
The writer of this pile of garbage, Gabe Sherman, a lowlife and talentless hack, who has long been widely discredited, knew that, but chose to ignore it.
—Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Oct. 2024
In much of your short fiction, too, there are these semi-likeable lowlife characters.
—Hazlitt, 20 Mar. 2024
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Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2025
That’s where detective Kang Dong-woo, played by Jo Woo-jin, searches for his teen daughter and ultimately enlists help from the lowlife fixer Yoon Gil-ho, played by Ji Chang-wook.
—Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
The writer of this pile of garbage, Gabe Sherman, a lowlife and talentless hack, who has long been widely discredited, knew that, but chose to ignore it.
—Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Oct. 2024
In much of your short fiction, too, there are these semi-likeable lowlife characters.
—Hazlitt, 20 Mar. 2024
See All Example Sentences for lowlife
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“Lowlife.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lowlife. Accessed 18 Apr. 2025.
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