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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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