lowly
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An up-and-down start hit rock bottom this weekend when a loss to the lowly Cardinals dropped Los Angeles’s record to 2-4.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
Her willingness to work hard in lowly jobs produces a great opportunity when the owners of First Light entrust her with the yacht and give her financial backing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
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
It’s unheard of for Cabinet members or the vice president to take such a lowly job.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026
Such lowly offices as I had performed for the rebels, I was now commissioned to perform for the King’s Army: the work of mattock, spade, and shovel.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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
The women in sober gowns, kerchiefs, and hoods, their garments poor, but scrupulously neat, follow next; the lowlier yielding precedence to those of better condition.
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake
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
Sarah, not her real name, explained: “There was most definitely a culture of fear across the whole store - from the lowliest of the low, to the most senior person.”
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2024
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
Sweet potatoes, fruit Jello, and roast pork — not turkey — would be served to all the inmates, from the lowliest cutpurse to what amounted to the celebrity wing, and its residents:
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2023
The lowliest vuvv grunt made more in a week than most humans made in two years.
From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson
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