lowlives
Society's bottom feeders
Lowlives is the plural of lowlife—people regarded as disreputable, criminal, or morally degraded.
The term suggests someone who inhabits the seedy margins of society: The bar attracted lowlives and petty criminals.
It's often used loosely as an insult for anyone considered contemptible: Those lowlives stole my bike.
Idle, worthless individuals
- riffraffDisreputable or undesirable people
- roguesDishonest or deviant individuals
- hoodlumsYoung criminal troublemakers
- hooligansViolent young troublemakers
delinquents · miscreants · reprobates · degenerates · villains · blackguards · knaves · scallywags
Disreputably low-quality
- disreputableHaving poor standing
- corruptDishonest, open to bribes
- unscrupulousLacking moral principles
- shadyDisreputable or sun-blocked
seedy · sordid · dishonorable · despicable · vile · base · ignoble · depraved
Socially rejected individuals
- rejectsRefuses or discards
- misfitsThose who don't belong
- vagrantsHomeless itinerant people
- driftersAimless travelers, homeless rovers
derelicts · homeless · down-and-outs · transients · squatters · beggars · panhandlers · tramps
Serious crime offenders
- thievesThose who commit larceny
- burglarsThose who illegally enter
- robbersThose who steal forcibly
- muggersViolent street robbers
pickpockets · shoplifters · fraudsters · con artists · embezzlers · smugglers · forgers · extortionists
Organized crime members
- mobstersOrganized crime members
- mafiosiOrganized crime members
- caposCrime bosses or guitar clamps
- enforcersThose who impose obedience
hitmen · racketeers · bookmakers · fixers · kingpins · crime bosses · made men · wise guys
ne'er-do-wells
Idle, worthless individuals
- riffraffDisreputable or undesirable people
- roguesDishonest or deviant individuals
- hoodlumsYoung criminal troublemakers
hooligans · delinquents · miscreants · reprobates · degenerates · villains · blackguards · knaves · scallywags · wrongdoers
sleazy
Disreputably low-quality
- disreputableHaving poor standing
- corruptDishonest, open to bribes
- unscrupulousLacking moral principles
shady · seedy · sordid · dishonorable · despicable · vile · base · ignoble · depraved · immoral
pariahs
Socially rejected individuals
drifters · derelicts · homeless · down-and-outs · transients · squatters · beggars · panhandlers · tramps · hobos
felons
Serious crime offenders
muggers · pickpockets · shoplifters · fraudsters · con artists · embezzlers · smugglers · forgers · extortionists · arsonists
gangsters
Organized crime members
enforcers · hitmen · racketeers · bookmakers · fixers · kingpins · crime bosses · made men · wise guys · soldiers
lowlivespillars of the community
Respected, influential local figures
saints · good people · do-gooders · straight arrows · role models
lowliveselites
Privileged powerful groups
high society · aristocrats · pillars of society · dignitaries · notables
lower, lowest, lowered, lowering, lowly, lowlife, lower-class, lowlifes, low-lives