See lowlife on Wiktionary
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"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "untrustworthy, despicable, or disreputable person",
"word": "sampah masyarakat"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "untrustworthy, despicable, or disreputable person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "szumowina"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "untrustworthy, despicable, or disreputable person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "zwyrodnialec"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "otmorózok",
"sense": "untrustworthy, despicable, or disreputable person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "отморо́зок"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "švalʹ",
"sense": "untrustworthy, despicable, or disreputable person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "шваль"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "svóločʹ",
"sense": "untrustworthy, despicable, or disreputable person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "сво́лочь"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "untrustworthy, despicable, or disreputable person",
"word": "canalla"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "untrustworthy, despicable, or disreputable person",
"word": "rufián"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "untrustworthy, despicable, or disreputable person",
"word": "skurk"
}
],
"word": "lowlife"
}
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