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noun

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Recent Examples of lowlife
Adjective
Trump represents a father figure who is returning to the house, and there are various people living in it who are freeloaders and grifters and lowlifes abusing the kingdom. Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025 The groper was a lowlife—a deranged doctor, bent on harvesting astronaut semen for pernicious procreative ends. Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2025 That’s where detective Kang Dong-woo, played by Jo Woo-jin, searches for his teen daughter and ultimately enlists help from the lowlife fixer Yoon Gil-ho, played by Ji Chang-wook. Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024 The writer of this pile of garbage, Gabe Sherman, a lowlife and talentless hack, who has long been widely discredited, knew that, but chose to ignore it. Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Oct. 2024 In much of your short fiction, too, there are these semi-likeable lowlife characters. Hazlitt, 20 Mar. 2024 The groper was a lowlife—a deranged doctor, bent on harvesting astronaut semen for pernicious procreative ends. Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2025 For the mom and the daughter and the civil jury sitting in judgment, that his accusations brought harassment and threats by pro-Trump lowlifes to their front door was the last straw. Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024 Ever since 2008’s Taken opened up a surprisingly durable late-career reinvention for Liam Neeson as a taciturn action star of tough-guy dad thrillers, frequently dispatching lowlifes who mess with his family, it’s become the norm to expect more of the same. David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lowlife
Adjective
  • Al Bello/Getty Images Outside of the Giants' organization, expectations are low.
    Justin Grasso, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025
  • Does the Trump administration really want to sink that low?
    Louis Balsamo, Baltimore Sun, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • Yet each performance feels angled at a slightly different degree, one distinct acting turn making all the difference between a charming scoundrel, a depressed artist, a loyal sidekick, an aloof intellectual, or a precocious kid.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 12 June 2025
  • Is Jim Ellis a live-fast, die-young scoundrel or just a mostly pretty nice guy with a heart of gold who just happens to be working for the mob?
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 25 May 2025
Noun
  • Since then, he’s been a haunted wretch of a character: stoned, sullen, stuck with recurring visions of shooting his wife and himself.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2025
  • The unfortunate wretch makes an exciting escape, killing her captor in the process.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 18 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Below that sits the pedestrian CLK 500 and plebeian CLK 350.
    Jeremy Korzeniewski, Robb Report, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Across the lake, on the plebeian side, up the shoreline a mile or so, in the heart of downtown West Palm Beach, stand twin 32-story towers dubbed Trump Plaza of the Palm Beaches.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Two of the game’s most brilliant villains have matured into eloquent eulogists.
    Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2025
  • For an industry which has long been treated by the television and film industries as a dirty, dangerous business run by unethical, cartoon-ish villains like J.R. Ewing, such a balanced portrayal is a welcome change, indeed.
    David Blackmon, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
Noun
  • And now, without further ado, an ode to the rogues and rascals who make being hot and doing crimes in this galaxy so fun to watch.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Something tells me those wary rascals spotted us and gave us the slip.
    Percy Brown, Outdoor Life, 12 June 2025
Adjective
  • O’Neal credits the playgrounds of his childhood with giving him instincts on the court and helping instill the resilience to endure what felt like an ignoble start to his career.
    Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
  • The janky but oddly addictive Friday the 13th: The Game goes offline for good at the end of the year — an ignoble but perhaps inevitable fate for an interactive slasher that’s been plagued by problems since its rocky launch in 2017.
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 13 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Like many previous protests miscreants show up, vandalize, burn and cause damage.
    Letters to the Editor, Oc Register, 10 June 2025
  • Stephanie is hardly reformed by the consequences of her actions, and the ending suggests that this is one miscreant Charlie might have to watch out for in the future.
    Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 29 May 2025

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“Lowlife.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lowlife. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.

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