Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Leading a low or mean life; vulgar.
- Pertaining to or characteristic of low or vulgar life; mean; shabby: as, low-lived manners; a low-lived trick.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Characteristic of, or like, one bred in a low and vulgar condition of life; mean; dishonorable; contemptible.
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Examples
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Jefferson, in turn was described as “a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father.”
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Adams's hacks called Jefferson "a mean-spirited, low-lived ... son of a half-breed Indian squaw sired by a Virginia mulatto father."
Clancy Sigal: Wimps Don't Win Clancy Sigal 2010
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Adams's hacks called Jefferson "a mean-spirited, low-lived ... son of a half-breed Indian squaw sired by a Virginia mulatto father."
Clancy Sigal: Wimps Don't Win Clancy Sigal 2010
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Adams's hacks called Jefferson "a mean-spirited, low-lived ... son of a half-breed Indian squaw sired by a Virginia mulatto father."
Clancy Sigal: Wimps Don't Win Clancy Sigal 2010
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"Jefferson is a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia Mulatto father"
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Adams's hacks called Jefferson "a mean-spirited, low-lived... son of a half-breed Indian squaw sired by a Virginia mulatto father."
Clancy Sigal: Wimps Don't Win Clancy Sigal 2010
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Adams's hacks called Jefferson "a mean-spirited, low-lived... son of a half-breed Indian squaw sired by a Virginia mulatto father."
Clancy Sigal: Wimps Don't Win Clancy Sigal 2010
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There was in Paris at that epoch, in a low-lived old lodging in the Rue
Les Miserables 2008
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Dick Middlemas had been urged forward, in his suit to Menie Gray, by his observing how much her partner, a booby laird, had been captivated by her; and she was now lowered in his esteem, because an impudent low-lived coxcomb had presumed to talk of her with disparagement.
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"He is a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father." -- said by supporters of John Adams, of Thomas Jefferson, during the 1800 election.
"Please stop it. Stop talking." Ann Althouse 2006
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