bottom feeder
Example Sentences
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Langley, who went 126-61 during her six-year tenure at Rice, established a reputation as a program builder after resurrecting a Conference USA bottom feeder that was 9-21 the season before her arrival.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 12, 2021
“We’re like this entertainment-industry bottom feeder, and as such we have a ton of creative freedom to really define what the American pub quiz actually is.”
From The Guardian • Mar. 5, 2020
A bottom feeder pretends to be a fearsome shark slayer after the son of a finned hoodlum meets an accidental death.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2019
When a columnist wrote a nasty piece dismissing the First Bloke as a “hipster salty seadog,” he tweeted a picture of himself holding a fish and calling it another bottom feeder.
From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2018
It is very largely a bottom feeder and, therefore, rather of a sluggish nature.
From Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast by Payne, Harry Thom
