bottom feeder
Example Sentences
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The tabloid’s reporting on Edwards won new respect for a publication that had been derided as a bottom feeder in news media circles.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2024
In Weidman’s novel, the main character, a garment industry climber named Harry Bogen, is an impenitent snake, a moral bottom feeder who knows no bottom.
From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2023
“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 this program gains control, it is powerful enough to load the actual OS and hand control over to it. :bottom feeder: /n./
From The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0, 24 Jul 1996 by Raymond, Eric S.
