lowlife

1 It idealises its lowlifes as if they were arcadian shepherds, not so very remote from the outlaws, buckaroos, rodeo riders and Appalachian rustics in Aaron Copland's ballets.

2 Jimmy lacked respect for his father’s kindly nature, which made him an easy mark for lowlifes and con men.

3 It is a work that combines psychosexual portraiture that anticipates Freud with stock farcical figures like the illiterate cop and various rascally lowlifes.

4 Her mother answered the phone and called me a lowlife.

5 To celebrate the anniversary of the birth of the poet laureate of L.A. lowlife, here are 18 things he wrote and said and did.

6 Enrigue has called the tennis duel a metaphor of geopolitical confrontations, but it’s more riveting as the comically desperate, hung-over contest between two artists with lowlife habits who fancy each other.

7 His new assignment: killing a lowlife dealer who’s gotten in over his head.

8 Today, I was participating in an exercise in my psychology class to describe this horrible looking person I had never seen before and I described the person as a "rebellious, drug dealing, lowlife".

今天，我参加了我们心理学课上面的一个小游戏，游戏需要我们描述照片上那个长相恐怖的陌生人。我把那个人描述成”反叛的、卑鄙的毒贩“。

9 In Mr. Scarlett’s ballet, sex, violence and death were ordinary; it was inspired by the 1907 Camden Town Murders and the sexual and murderous connections between high-profile men and lowlife women.

10 May whichever fanatical lowlife rises up to take his place be dispatched much more quickly.

11 That's partly because no one in this lowlife trio is at all likable.

12 That’s how Samuel Fuller responded to critics — for example, J. Edgar Hoover — who objected to the sketches of American lowlifes, mad men, racists and cynical soldiers in his thrillingly alive films.

13 Every now and then a racy book about lowlife—Tobacco Road, for example—would catch the public fancy, but for a surprisingly long time middlebrow fiction in America was about upper-middle-class life.

14 Perhaps the bankers and speculators who ruined the economy are linked in some way to the punks and lowlifes who ruin themselves, and maybe Cogan is the allegorical double of Ben Bernanke.

15 But most of the additions to a short film that required no fleshing out contribute only half-baked plot complications involving assorted lowlifes.

16 In such circumstances, the justifiably paranoid mind naturally believes this snippet of film, stolen at random by a lowlife pickpocket, could decide the fate of the planet.

17 When it won first prize, one of Dad’s other teachers wondered aloud if the son of two lowlife alcoholics like Ted and Erma Walls could have written it himself.

18 What kind of a complete scumbag lowlife piece of garbage does this?

19 The latest example is former White House advisor Omarosa Manigault Newman, who Trump called “crazed,” a “lowlife,” and a “dog” on Twitter.

20 Despite this unevenness, Bordelli is fine company — not least because, like Dashiell Hammett's Nick Charles, he enjoys a circle of friends encompassing both high- and lowlife, especially crooks he once jailed but who remain pals.

1 卑鄙的人

reptile skunk dog snake hound louse hangdog slubber stinkard

2 坏人

miscreant

3 卑鄙

mean little base dirty foul reptile filthy unethical lousy shabby wretched unworthy creeping shoddy abject sordid reptilian soulless scurvy depraved dishonorable ignoble sneaking scurrilous scabby low-down low-life wormy rascally ungenerous hangdog caddish verminous doggish scoundrelly low-minded low basely impudently foully vilely filthily pettily villainy turpitude lowliness baseness vileness abjection scurrility grubbiness sordor deprave

4 卑鄙的

mean little base dirty foul reptile filthy unethical lousy shabby wretched unworthy creeping shoddy abject sordid reptilian soulless scurvy depraved dishonorable ignoble sneaking scurrilous scabby low-down low-life wormy rascally ungenerous hangdog caddish verminous doggish scoundrelly low-minded

5 卑劣的家伙

swine snipe

6 低下社会阶级的

low-life

7 罪犯

criminal offender villain culprit thug crook delinquent miscreant badmash law-breaker

8 恶棍

villain rogue cad thug rascal hooligan wretch scoundrel miscreant ruffian knave reprobate hoodlum blackguard toughie rotter

9 下流坯

nasty swine