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Lowlife

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Noun

1. bum, crumb, dirty dog, git, lowlife, puke, rat, rotter, scum bag, skunk, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot

a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible

Example Sentences:
'only a rotter would do that'
'kill the rat'
'throw the bum out'
'you cowardly little pukes!'
'the British call a contemptible person a git''

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Lowlife

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noun plural -lifes
slang
a. 
a member or members of the underworld
b. 
(as modifier)
his lowlife friends

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Lowlife

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noun
1. Word forms: plural ˈlowˌlifes
a vulgar, coarse, or undignified person
: also ˈlowˌlifer
2. 
lowlifes collectively or their milieu
adjective
3. 
of or characteristic of a lowlife; low-class

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Lowlife

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n. pl. low·lifes also low·lives (-līvz′)
A person of low social status or moral character: "explores a world of London lowlifes in sinister prosperity" (Times Literary Supplement).

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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