lowlife
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Frank is a lowlife antihero for the ages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
“He is a lowlife who is nasty, rude, and condescending, and obviously trying to ‘play the ref,’” Trump claimed.
From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2024
“We have a lowlife out here,” Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke said in a video asking the public for its help.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2022
“My son Jonathan was a thousand times more of a man than this lowlife could ever even dream of being,” Justine Amerault said.
From Washington Times ● May 27, 2022
“No. This is not the commander. This is Foaly, the centaur. Is that the kidnapping lowlife human?”
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
In the words of Damon Runyon, the bard of gambling lowlifes, “Mr. Bert Bell does not get out of bed in time for daylight games.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
As is the case in these mysteries, the upstanding citizens are propped up by a whole lot of lowlifes, but few as fearsome as Scott Shepherd’s chilly construction manager, Allen Murphy.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2025
The plot hinges on a document coveted by some of the city’s biggest auto manufacturers, but the various lowlifes hired to steal it are, with one notable exception, happily ignorant of its contents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2021
“I have to fight off these lowlifes at the same time I’m negotiating these very important things,” Mr. Trump said.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2019
Meanwhile Billington pere made merry with other non-Puritan lowlifes and haphazardly plotted against authority.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
