lowlife
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Frank is a lowlife antihero for the ages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
“He is a lowlife who is nasty, rude, and condescending, and obviously trying to ‘play the ref,’” Trump claimed.
From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2024
“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
“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
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 “American Buffalo” first hit the stage, in Chicago in 1975, its portrait of lowlifes like Teach — two-bit grifters aping the realpolitik of American business — was a game changer.
From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2022
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
Meanwhile Billington pere made merry with other non-Puritan lowlifes and haphazardly plotted against authority.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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