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low-life

low-life is the alternative form of lowlife.

Meaning of lowlife

Adjective

lowlife (comparative more lowlife, superlative most lowlife)

  1. Lacking morality.
  2. Seemingly mischievous and troublesome to society.

See all 5 meanings of lowlife

Forms of low-life

Adjective
comparativemore low-life
superlativemost low-life
Noun
plurallow-lives
plurallow-lifes

Questions about low-life

What is low-life the alternative form of?
Low-life is the alternative form of lowlife.

Words near low-life in the dictionary

  1. low-keyness
  2. low-kill shelter
  3. low-level
  4. low-level language
  5. low-level languages
  6. low-life
  7. low-lifes
  8. low-lives
  9. low-loader
  10. low-loaders
  11. low-lying

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