Sentence examples for a lowlife from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "a lowlife" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe a person who is considered to have low moral standards or to be disreputable.
Example: "He was known around town as a lowlife, always getting into trouble and causing problems for others."
Alternatives: "a scoundrel" or "a degenerate".

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He's an abuser and a lowlife.

And I can play a lowlife.

William told me that Adkins was "a lowlife".

He's a lowlife caricature of a romantic hero, trying to do the right thing by everybody.

He started life as Eel O'Brian, a lowlife gangster accidentally doused by some unnamed acid while committing a robbery.

But Flowers – who once described himself as a "lowlife grave dancer" – has other options.

The role he acts out is a lowlife superman: James Bondsman.

"The Brooklyn D.A. is a lowlife political hack," Mr. Goldstein said.

The dead man, it turns out, wasn't always a lowlife drifter.

"Glorious literary flourishes pepper his descriptions of the highlife (being lived by a lowlife)" he concludes.

"I feel like I'm a lowlife looking for handouts," he said.

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