Definition of "low-lived" [low•-lived]

• Characteristic of, or like, one bred in a low and vulgar condition of life; mean; dishonorable; contemptible. (adjective)

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• "Adams's hacks called Jefferson "a mean-spirited, low-lived ... son of a half-breed Indian squaw sired by a Virginia mulatto father.""
• "Jefferson, in turn was described as “a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father.”"
• ""Jefferson is a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia Mulatto father""