Meaning

3 senses
  1. (derogatory)An untrustworthy, despicable, disreputable, or otherwise immoral person, especially one suspected of being a criminal.

    They say all the lowlifes used to hang out at the docks and plot their despicable crimes, before being elected to public office.

    zwielichtige Gestalt, zwielichtige Person, suspekter Typ

    отморо́зокotmorózok, швальšvalʹ, сво́лочьsvóločʹ

    a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible

  2. (derogatory)A person who is rebuked by their community for their behavior.

  3. (derogatory)A person of low socio-economic status.

Examples

4 sentences
  1. I'm sick and tired of these lowlife bastards.

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  2. These lowlife trolls tweeted and spread the very same poster that they find objectionable.

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  3. He's a lowlife bastard.

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  4. He's just a lowlife.

    ruОн тот ещё подонок.

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
untrustworthy, despicable, or disreputable person:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
untrustworthy, despicable, or disreputable person:

Origin

From low + life.

From low + life.

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Forms

plural: lowlifes / lowlives

Synonyms

14 synonyms
criminal and Thesaurus:jerk
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Derivedlowlifer

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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