How to Use lowlife in a Sentence

lowlife

noun
  • No collusion, all made up by this den of thieves and lowlifes!
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 13 Apr. 2018
  • What kind of a complete scumbag lowlife piece of garbage does this?
    — Dallas News, 25 May 2022
  • This high tech lowlife changed how a lot of people thought about the future.
    — Kevin Kelly and Paula Parisi, WIRED, 1 Feb. 1997
  • Or, plant a gun on a lowlife who deserved it and the world's a better place.
    — Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 15 May 2026
  • Bert and Ernie are reduced to Pottersville lowlifes.
    — Margaret Heidenry, Vanity Fair, 24 Dec. 2025
  • Producing a weapon is usually enough to scare off your run-of-the-mill lowlife.
    — Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 12 Sep. 2019
  • There is a new lowlife generation that can’t speak without using vulgar terms.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 28 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • May whichever fanatical lowlife rises up to take his place be dispatched much more quickly.
    — The Editors, National Review, 1 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • The lowlifes here at Kickin’ It Headquarters would rather argue about beer than politics.
    — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 24 Mar. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • Her killer, 34-year-old Alexander Bonds, was a lowlife and prison parolee with untreated mental illness.
    — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 13 July 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Luke has his sister, Leia, and a solid support system to help him see reason, while Rotta is isolated, save for the other Hutts, who are all lowlifes and thieves.
    — Sergio Pereira, Space.com, 22 May 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Manfredi appears to have been more excited by Caravaggio’s native feeling for drama and lowlife subjects than by anything spiritual.
    — Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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