lowly
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While Chelsea would still need to improve considerably to win the title, they were better than their lowly 10th-place finish last season suggests.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
“I’m just one lowly person that was working there.”
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026
The ultraviolent 1991 film was directed by her former husband Renny Harlin and co-starred Samuel L. Jackson as a lowly private investigator.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
Rebuffs have come from more lowly corners, too.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
Oh bang the drum slowly and play the fife lowly .
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
Ephraim, younger and less weathered, will perform the lowlier chores, like scrubbing the floors and emptying the waste into the waves.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 18, 2019
Blackburn Rovers triumphed in 1995, but now languish in a lowlier division; most fans, and players, will remain keen on the biggest clubs.
From Economist ● May 2, 2016
The Olympics showed us a different model: superfit, lowlier but disciplined sports people whom I very much doubt were not at it day and night after competing.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 3, 2013
One explanation is that England, wittingly or not, approach their matches against the lowlier sides in a different way.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 12, 2011
He would have to exchange his palatial residence for a lowlier dwelling-place; and that the count would have to share this with him proved a poor consolation.
From Judith Trachtenberg A Novel by Karl Emil Franzos
George parlays this job into a major’s rank, but only in the Virginia Militia, not the Royal Army, whose officers continue to treat him like the lowliest private.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Yet, it’s no spoiler to reveal that during her long weeks and months as an anchorite, Aleys found the means to slowly and secretly teach Marte, lowliest of the Beguines, how to read and write.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2026
This colorful, wreath-shaped cake is featured from January 6th until Fat Tuesday in the finest bakeries and the lowliest of supermarkets and just about everywhere in between.
From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2024
"Everyone involved, from the lowliest runners to the star names, has been shaken up by this," they added.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2023
Apprentices, assistants, the lowliest workers in every trade—no matter what their status, it was the master’s duty to provide a meal for them in the middle of the workday.
From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park
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