lowlifes
Society's bottom dwellers
Lowlifes is the plural of lowlife, a person of low social standing or moral character—someone associated with crime, vice, or generally disreputable behavior.
The term is always derogatory: The bar attracted lowlifes and petty criminals.
She wondered how her brother got mixed up with those lowlifes.
The alternative plural lowlives also appears.
Surface residue or lowlifes
- degeneratesWorsens over time
- riffraffDisreputable or undesirable people
- dregsResidue at bottom
- sleazebagsContemptible, unethical people
dirtbags · scoundrels · reprobates · miscreants · ne'er-do-wells · good-for-nothings · bottom-feeders · pond scum
Serious crime offenders
- outlawsFugitives from justice
- gangstersOrganized crime members
- thievesThose who commit larceny
- crooksCriminals or hooked staffs
hoodlums · mobsters · burglars · muggers · pickpockets · hustlers · thugs · grifters
Inclined to deceive
- unscrupulousLacking moral principles
- corruptDishonest, open to bribes
- sleazyDisreputably low-quality
- shadyDisreputable or sun-blocked
crooked · underhanded · deceitful · disreputable · untrustworthy · conniving · scheming · devious
Rejected, excluded people
- pariahsSocially rejected individuals
- rejectsRefuses or discards
- undesirablesUnwanted or objectionable persons
- untouchablesExcluded social group
marginalized · dispossessed · down-and-out · derelicts · vagrants · transients · drifters · street people
scum
Surface residue or lowlifes
- degeneratesWorsens over time
- riffraffDisreputable or undesirable people
- dregsResidue at bottom
sleazebags · dirtbags · scoundrels · reprobates · miscreants · ne'er-do-wells · good-for-nothings · bottom-feeders · pond scum · wretches
felons
Serious crime offenders
crooks · hoodlums · mobsters · burglars · muggers · pickpockets · hustlers · thugs · grifters · conmen
dishonest
Inclined to deceive
- unscrupulousLacking moral principles
- corruptDishonest, open to bribes
- sleazyDisreputably low-quality
shady · crooked · underhanded · deceitful · disreputable · untrustworthy · conniving · scheming · devious · two-faced
outcasts
Rejected, excluded people
- pariahsSocially rejected individuals
- rejectsRefuses or discards
- undesirablesUnwanted or objectionable persons
untouchables · marginalized · dispossessed · down-and-out · derelicts · vagrants · transients · drifters · street people · underclass
- troublemakerstroublemaker, rascals, delinquents, imps, brats
- thugsthugs, goons, heavies, toughs, brutes
- bad influenceswrong crowd, peer pressure, bad habits, enablers, manipulators
lowlifesgood people
Morally upright individuals
saints · pillars of the community · straight arrows · do-gooders · boy scouts
lowlifeselites
Privileged powerful groups
high society · aristocrats · upper crust · nobility · bluebloods