The people regarded as the most immoral or socially inferior of all.
‘the people who did this are the lowest of the low’
‘I was treated like the lowest of the low’
‘To steal from the dead is the lowest of the low - it just doesn't get any lower than that.’
‘For someone to do such a thing - I think they are the lowest of the low.’
‘We know that in the criminal fraternity attacks on the elderly and infirm are seen as the lowest of the low.’
‘This was an appalling crime and whoever did this is the lowest of the low.’
‘You have stooped to the lowest of the low in parliamentary debate.’
‘I mean in the eyes of most people, sex offenders are the lowest of the low.’
‘He arrived in the big city, the lowest of the low - the bastard son of a peasant - and stayed there.’
‘I think that publishing pictures of anybody as they're dying is the lowest of the low.’
‘Usually converted from smaller supply ships, or cobbled together by the less intelligent of the engineering classes, the class three ships had made a name for themselves as the lowest of the low.’
‘This act of solidarity with the lowest of the low in a place of unspeakable violence illustrates the unbounded depth and breadth of God's compassionate presence.’
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