lowlife
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Frank is a lowlife antihero for the ages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
“We have a lowlife out here,” Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke said in a video asking the public for its help.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2022
“My son Jonathan was a thousand times more of a man than this lowlife could ever even dream of being,” Justine Amerault said.
From Washington Times ● May 27, 2022
"I want every bounty hunter and lowlife to squeeze him," she says of Obi-Wan in one shot.
From Salon ● May 5, 2022
“My stunning resemblance to that lowlife O’Doyle is but one result of Petey’s curse, and perhaps the least of them. You shall see.”
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
In the words of Damon Runyon, the bard of gambling lowlifes, “Mr. Bert Bell does not get out of bed in time for daylight games.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
When word gets out that he’s looking to cash out of the business, it soon triggers an array of plots and schemes from lowlifes who want his domain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2020
“I have to fight off these lowlifes at the same time I’m negotiating these very important things,” Mr. Trump said.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2019
Punch surveys the bleating lowlifes ringed around him on the beach, cheering, laughing, waiting for the next act, but their whoops sound fake, their howls of laughter hollow.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 18, 2019
Meanwhile Billington pere made merry with other non-Puritan lowlifes and haphazardly plotted against authority.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
