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
Among those who “sometimes, rarely, or never” received the social and emotional support they needed, 33% had signs of anxiety, 31% had symptoms of depression, and 14% had “very low life satisfaction.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 16, 2024
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
But in middle, and still more in low life, the diversity in different countries is very great, and such as never can be reached by mere reading, or study of the works of others.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various