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lowest of the low |
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the lowest of the low people who have no moral standards and lack any personal qualities. He regards the police as the lowest of the low. Drug-dealers and pimps come a close second. See also: low the lowest of the low a person or organization that has no moral standards. Anyone who would trick poor people into giving him their money has got to be the lowest of the low. Usage notes: used to show you strongly disapprove of someone See also: low |
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To Jurgis he seemed a scarcely less wonderful person than the speaker at the meeting; he was poor, the lowest of the low, hunger-driven and miserable--and yet how much he knew, how much he had dared and achieved, what a hero he had been I find myself, with a great career opening before me, tied to a woman whose relations are (as you well know) the lowest of the low. I am well aware that it is not for the lowest of the low to carry a gentleman's brolly, and I ask your ladyship's pardon for the liberty. |
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