How to Use lowlife in a Sentence

lowlife

noun
  • This high tech lowlife changed how a lot of people thought about the future.
    — Kevin Kelly and Paula Parisi, WIRED, 1 Feb. 1997
  • What kind of a complete scumbag lowlife piece of garbage does this?
    — Dallas News, 25 May 2022
  • No collusion, all made up by this den of thieves and lowlifes!
    — Eric Tucker and Mary Clare Jalonick, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • No collusion, all made up by this den of thieves and lowlifes!
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 13 Apr. 2018
  • No collusion, all made up by this den of thieves and lowlifes!
    — Erin Kelly, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Producing a weapon is usually enough to scare off your run-of-the-mill lowlife.
    — Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 12 Sep. 2019
  • There’s nothing more lowlife than lying to the elderly.
    — Hillary Busis, VanityFair.com, 17 Mar. 2017
  • Truly Tainted is the lowlife deadbeat who took the fresh bouquet and replaced it with dead flowers.
    — Sainted & Tainted Writers, Twin Cities, 10 June 2017
  • Should some lowlife have the temerity to steal your passport, the technology could help the police hunt it down.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
  • The lowlifes here at Kickin’ It Headquarters would rather argue about beer than politics.
    — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 24 Mar. 2017
  • Her killer, 34-year-old Alexander Bonds, was a lowlife and prison parolee with untreated mental illness.
    — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 13 July 2017
  • And probably in the jury that acquitted this lowlife...
    — Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 4 May 2017
  • The sad irony is that migrant workers contribute far more to the economy and well-being of this city than this lowlife ever has.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Michael Cohen is, famously, a lowlife and screwball who’s made his living as an enforcer, liar and thug.
    — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 28 Feb. 2019
  • The rampant smut that blighted Times Square and the constellation of lowlifes who orbited around it were tackled in that neighborhood in the mid ’90s.
    — Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Artie’s spent his youth in a brothel getting punched by johns, training in martial arts, and running a small racket with his lowlife Londinium pals.
    — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 12 May 2017
  • Instead, many scary exploits are available (thanks in part to breaches at the NSA) to rogue nation states or ordinary lowlifes who purchase them on the Internet.
    — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2017
  • Set in an eastern district of Amman, the film follows a lowlife whose desire to run away with his respectable girlfriend leads him and others to make very foolish alliances.
    — Jay Weissberg, Variety, 18 Aug. 2021
  • His bailiwick is seamy realism, walking the edge of soft-core as lowlife exploiter Larry Clark did with Kids, but never transcending it.
    — Armond White, National Review, 29 Dec. 2021
  • And there is teeming, glorious Tokyo, whose blossoming trees and lowlife nightclubs have been his most reliable muse.
    — Jason Farago, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2018
  • May whichever fanatical lowlife rises up to take his place be dispatched much more quickly.
    — The Editors, National Review, 1 Aug. 2022
  • But that need not extend into taking out frustrations on or being a lowlife towards the opposition.
    — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 May 2021
  • What starts off feeling a little like a B-movie offering the inverse of Western romance in the company of losers and lowlifes quickly transforms into a road trip-cum-thriller defined by startling shifts and turns.
    — Eve MacSweeney, Vogue, 17 Aug. 2018
  • Guzman’s lawyers say the lowlife cooperators are lying in an attempt to frame him and get an easier sentence in their own drug-trafficking cases.
    — Claudia Torrens, The Seattle Times, 18 Dec. 2018
  • What, with a lowlife portrait both funny and infuriating, and Benny Safdie makes Nick a hulking figure of heartbreaking pathos, with never a false moment.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 May 2017
  • Kids who went to play Tempest or Donkey Kong might end up seduced by lowlifes, spiraling into lives of substance abuse, sexual depravity and crime.
    — Michael Z. Newman, Smithsonian, 25 May 2017
  • In such circumstances, the justifiably paranoid mind naturally believes this snippet of film, stolen at random by a lowlife pickpocket, could decide the fate of the planet.
    — Mark Jacobson, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2021
  • Earnest, who was tied to a device that prevented him from turning to the audience, showed no visible reaction during the two-hour hearing as speakers called him a lowlife coward, an evil animal and a monster.
    — Elliot Spagat, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Earnest, who was tied to a device that prevented him from turning to the audience, showed no visible reaction during the two-hour hearing as speakers called him a lowlife coward, an evil animal and a monster.
    — Elliot Spagat, ajc, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Earnest, who was tied to a device that prevented him from turning to the audience, showed no visible reaction during the two-hour hearing as speakers called him a lowlife coward, an evil animal, and a monster.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2021

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