low-life
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This applies at the other end of the demographic scale as well: Americans have a pathetically low life expectancy for a developed country.
From Salon • Apr. 5, 2025
The chief executive of Tenovus Cancer Care, Judi Rhys, said people with these cancers had a "shockingly low life expectancy".
From BBC • Jan. 11, 2024
Africa is often celebrated as a young continent, but this is just a reflection of low life expectancy.
From Scientific American • Oct. 28, 2022
With its cast of ruffians, its American sins, its contemplation of quantum physics, its low life and high ideas, “The Passenger” is almost a perfect book.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2022
We talked of everything—politics, literature, the fine arts, drama, high life, low life, the opera, the cockpit—everything from the heavens above to the hells in St James’s Street.
From Tales from "Blackwood," Volume 2 by Various