lowlife
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Frank is a lowlife antihero for the ages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
“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
“American Buffalo” is a heist comedy about three small-time criminals hoping to steal a possibly valuable nickel, but its also a no-holds-barred portrait of lowlife desperation and greed.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 8, 2021
People call New York a cesspool, but New Yorkers would never knuckle under to intolerance and let some lowlife get away with drawing swastikas.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
As is the case in these mysteries, the upstanding citizens are propped up by a whole lot of lowlifes, but few as fearsome as Scott Shepherd’s chilly construction manager, Allen Murphy.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2025
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
The only characters who seem aware of his condition are the lowlifes of Hollywood Boulevard who bully him.
From New York Times ● Aug. 29, 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
