lowlife
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Frank is a lowlife antihero for the ages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
I worried they’d see him as a lowlife rather than a man who had lost everything and who needed their help to get it back, that they would have other priorities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2023
“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
"I want every bounty hunter and lowlife to squeeze him," she says of Obi-Wan in one shot.
From Salon ● May 5, 2022
“No. This is not the commander. This is Foaly, the centaur. Is that the kidnapping lowlife human?”
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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
When word gets out that he’s looking to cash out of the business, it soon triggers an array of plots and schemes from lowlifes who want his domain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2020
Punch surveys the bleating lowlifes ringed around him on the beach, cheering, laughing, waiting for the next act, but their whoops sound fake, their howls of laughter hollow.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 18, 2019
He’s witnessed the nightlife, the lowlifes, the developers, the drunks, the jumbo-slice wars.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2017
Meanwhile Billington pere made merry with other non-Puritan lowlifes and haphazardly plotted against authority.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
