72 examples of low-down in sentences

Virginia had been nurse in turn to all the children of Rudolph Musgrave's parents; and to the end of her life she appeared to regard the emancipation of the South's negroes as an irrelevant vagary of certain "low-down" and probably "ornery" Yankees as an, in short, quite eminently "tacky" proceeding which very certainly in no way affected her vested right to tyrannize over the Musgrave household.

One of the worst cases was that of Livius, a low-down, money-grubbing German Portuguese, who ousted the future Master of the Rolls; Sir William Grant, a man most admirably fitted to interpret the laws of Canada with knowledge, sympathy, and absolute impartiality.

if you sell dat old house, Charlie, you low-down old dog, Charlie, what de Compte De Charleu make for you grace-gran'muzzer, de dev' can eat you, Charlie, I don't care.'

old Charlie, you blame low-down old dog, wake up!

One was low-down Choctaw, one was high up noblesse.

Twelve long months were midnight to the mind of the childless father; when they were only half gone, he took his bed; and every day, and every night, old Charlie, the "low-down," the "fool," watched him tenderly, tended him lovingly, for the sake of his name, his misfortunes, and his broken heart.

If your compatriots don't want to patronise my house, they can go to that low-down lunatic asylum across the street.

In the Siner cabin old Caroline Siner berated her boy for his stupidity in ever trading with that low-down, twisting snake in the grass, Henry Hooker.

PATOU For a low-down dachshund who trod on his own ears!

er me see why dat low-down husban' er yo'n could ever run away f'm a cook like you.

Oily Dave contrived to throw a withering emphasis on the latter adjective, and rolled up his eyes in a manner meant to imply injured innocence, which, however, only expressed low-down meanness and cunning.

On the way home from that talk Watts had branded the man who mended the boats as one of them low-down anarchists that ought to be shot at sunrise.

"You're the meanest low-down things I ever heard of!"

But if I join your Church and don't do that, I might as well be one of those low-down Freewill Baptists or Episcopals.

Former Morals "There was a time when a low-down person, colored or white, couldn't stay in the community.

Aphrodite opened the interview by inquiring why she was being pestered and intermediated by a low-down black nigger that didn't have no mo' brains than he had manners.

His dress that night before a New York audience was the most unbecoming that a fiend's ingenuity could have devised for a tall, gaunt mana black frock coat, ill-setting and too short for him in the body, skirt, and armsa rolling collar, low-down, disclosing his long thin, shrivelled throat uncovered and exposed.

Up in Dawson I heered once he trained a timber wolf t' lead a team o' McKenzie huskies; but he'd find that a heap easier 'n puttin' the racin' sperit inter that low-down Golconda hound; an' I'll bet he'll git all that's comin' t' him this time fer his pains.

By the ghos', Mist' Gus, whut ain't nothin' no mo'n dat low-down, no 'count nephew o' ol' Mist' Hooper's.

After one or two Selections, they felt sufficiently Keyed to begin to hit up those low-down Songs about Baby and Chickens and Razors.

I won't have your low-down street slang in my office.

"Yuh low-down skunk!"

"But I've got a heap more respect for him than I have for you, yuh damn', low-down brute.

"He lied, the low-down cur.

And that poor, iggorent, low-down cook in the kitchen told me jest now I lied about Prince Arthur, that there never wuz such a prince, and I sez to her, 'How any black nigger can stand makin' bakin' powder biscuit and tell such lies is a mystery to me.'

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