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Meanings of lowlife in English

Portuguese
fulano
Catalan
cabró
Spanish
perro

A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible.

fulano
Usage of lowlife in English
1
You've been asleep ever since that lowlife Peter up and left you.
Cooking Up Murder
2
And she, of course, fulfilled Beard's old fantasy of the grand lowlife.
Solar
3
And there was the guy, the lowlife pusher who'd been holding Lindy.
Beastly
4
He was a lowlife with a repair shop that used all stolen parts.
The black minutes
5
He quickly insisted it was some lowlife who must have been behind it.
Down river
6
You think Ronnie can control every lowlife with a dollar and a dick?
Bones Are Forever
7
John Truck was to outward appearances just another lowlife spaceship captain.
The Centauri Device
8
They were lowlife crooks trading in adulterated penicillin, and their business was poisoning children.
The Guardian
9
Wasn't he supposed to be some kind of violent lowlife?
Running scared
10
That was where Mike Hill, drug dealer and general all-around do-anything-for-a-buck lowlife came in.
Calamity jayne
11
But what was this low-to-the-ground lowlife with a trimmed Vandyke?
A nose for justice
12
A lowlife who started roughing up one of the girls.
The road to rome: a forgotten legion chronicle
13
You just don't get quality lowlife often enough anymore.
Storm front
14
Mr Lines seems to believe that every thug, junkie and lowlife wants to be redeemed.
The Irish Times
15
Not since Jeffrey Bernard was in his pomp has anyone done picaresque lowlife so well.
The Guardian
16
She's a lowlife, according to footage from The Guardian.
Ebony
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Portuguese
fulano
Spanish
perro
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