down-and-out
adjective
1
2
: physically weakened or incapacitated
down-and-out
noun
or down-and-outer
Examples of down-and-out in a Sentence
I'm over the flu, but I still feel down-and-out
a soup kitchen where the down-and-out daily line up for a hot meal
Recent Examples on the Web
Shroud killed Robert’s dad and now the down-and-out hero is on the warpath.
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Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2025
And those Berger hallmarks are certainly on display in the new one, a drama about a dandy named Lord Doyle, a down-and-out con man and gambling addict on the brink of a breakdown in the kitschy gaming hub of Macau.
—Glenn Whipp, Boston Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
Gabriel pulls a few mystical strings so down-and-out Arj can switch places with Jeff for two weeks: the plan is that Arj will realize money can’t buy happiness and will volunteer to go back to his own life.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 17 Oct. 2025
Fraser stars as a down-and-out American actor adrift in Tokyo in Rental Family, which was filmed in Japan.
—Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2025
Gardin showed us a country where the medieval and the modern, the down-and-out and la dolce vita, seemed to coexist.
—Max Norman, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
Under the deal, Westbrook has set up projects at the studio, including Sugar Bandits, based on the book Devils in Exile by Chuck Hogan that follows a down-and-out Iraqi war veteran who intercepts drug deals for profit.
—Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
Despite promising a welcome throwback to the sort of down-and-out milieu that authors like Graham Greene once put on the map, this Lawrence Osborne adaptation winds up feeling like nothing so much as a quintessential Netflix movie: Easy to watch and impossible to care about.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 31 Aug. 2025
Befitting the down-and-out semis, Analog Devices put up good numbers, causing a headlong rush into internet of things (IoT).
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2025
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Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2025
And those Berger hallmarks are certainly on display in the new one, a drama about a dandy named Lord Doyle, a down-and-out con man and gambling addict on the brink of a breakdown in the kitschy gaming hub of Macau.
—Glenn Whipp, Boston Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
Gabriel pulls a few mystical strings so down-and-out Arj can switch places with Jeff for two weeks: the plan is that Arj will realize money can’t buy happiness and will volunteer to go back to his own life.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 17 Oct. 2025
Fraser stars as a down-and-out American actor adrift in Tokyo in Rental Family, which was filmed in Japan.
—Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2025
Gardin showed us a country where the medieval and the modern, the down-and-out and la dolce vita, seemed to coexist.
—Max Norman, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
Under the deal, Westbrook has set up projects at the studio, including Sugar Bandits, based on the book Devils in Exile by Chuck Hogan that follows a down-and-out Iraqi war veteran who intercepts drug deals for profit.
—Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
Despite promising a welcome throwback to the sort of down-and-out milieu that authors like Graham Greene once put on the map, this Lawrence Osborne adaptation winds up feeling like nothing so much as a quintessential Netflix movie: Easy to watch and impossible to care about.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 31 Aug. 2025
Befitting the down-and-out semis, Analog Devices put up good numbers, causing a headlong rush into internet of things (IoT).
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2025
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