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Another word for low-down

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Adjective

  1. Having or proceeding from low moral standards

      1. (Archaic) Of low birth, rank, or position.
      2. Having or showing little or no honor, courage, or decency; mean; ignoble; contemptible
      3. Having the low feudal status of villein
      1. Not noble in birth or position; of the common people
      2. Not of high social status; common.
      3. Not noble in character or quality; dishonorable; base; mean
      1. Below average in degree, intensity, or amount:
      2. Violating standards of morality or decency; base:
      3. Mean; despicable; contemptible
      1. Low in value, rank, or social status:
      2. (Slang) Hard to cope with; difficult or troublesome:
      3. Ignoble; base:
      1. Dirty or filthy:
      2. Dirty; filthy
      3. Base; ignoble; mean
      1. Wretched; miserable; sordid
      2. Dirty or deteriorated, especially from poverty or lack of care.
      3. Foul or unclean, esp. as the result of neglect or unsanitary conditions
      1. Highly disagreeable or most inferior; very bad: a generalized term of disapproval
      2. Morally base or evil; wicked; depraved; sinful
      3. Degrading; low; mean
    See also:

    right

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Sentence Examples

  • Farther north in Montana, beyond the gorge of the Missouri river, the structure of the Front Range is altogether different; it is here the carved residual of a great mass of moderately bent Palaeozoic strata, overthrust eastward upon the Mesozoic strata of the plains; instead of exposing the oldest rocks along the axis and the youngest rocks low down on the flanks, the younger rocks of the northern range follow its axis, and the oldest rocks outcrop along its eastern flanks, where they override the much younger strata of the plains; the harder strata, instead of lapping on the mountain flanks in great slab-like masses, as in the Bighorns, form out-facing scarps, which retreat into the mountain interior where they are cut down by outfiowing streams.

  • The lachrymal foramen in the skull is low down and forms an elongated slit.

  • Trees to be grown in the form of a bush are usually budded low down on the stem of the stock as near the root as possible to obviate the development of wild suckers later on.

  • from Valstagna, low down in the Brenta valley, but they had shot their bolt.

  • Near this place a number of streams unite to form the river Arinos, which at latitude io° 25' joins the Juruena to form the Alto Tapajos, so called as low down as the Rio Manoel, entering from the east.

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