Definition of "lowlife" []

• A person of low social status or moral character: "explores a world of London lowlifes in sinister prosperity” ( Times Literary Supplement). (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Here we go ... the lowlife is bringing Christianity into his miserable mess."
• "The other, a lowlife from the notorious Easterhouse estate in Glasgow, likes to take pot-shots at passing firemen and two year olds."
• "Funny, but such "lowlife" slanderous remarks are exactly what Herbert decries of the Clintons."