low-life

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adj hateful; beyond contempt

adjective. hateful; beyond contempt

"disreputable, vulgar," 1794, from low (adj.) + life; as a noun, "coarse, no-good person" it is recorded from 1911. Also lowlife.

Only, when some low-life like Dreer says this is a rotten school I don't care for it.

Gillian throws a rolling-pin at ye turnspit's head, and we call it low-life; but we looke for such unmannerlinesse in the kitchen.

But they are not more characteristic than his low-life pictures of itinerant players and singers.

They are now extinguished by the low-life novel; the most intolerable of all earthly realities.