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Low-down   /loʊ-daʊn/   Listen
noun
low-down, lowdown  n.  True confidential information.
Synonyms: details, dope, poop, inside dope, inside information.


adjective
low-down, lowdown  adj.  
1.
Of the most contemptible kind; contemptible; mean; base; vile; of people or the actions of people; as, a lowdown sneak thief.
Synonyms: abject, base, despicable, low, lowdown, miserable, vile.
2.
Having the soulful feeling of early blues; of jazz.
Synonyms: funky.





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"Low-down" Quotes from Famous Books



... told her we thought it was low-down to tell stories. And Peggy just laughed and said they wouldn't act so stiff as to tell the truth all the time.—Miss Margery, when are you going there again? I do want to go with you. The baby has a new tooth coming. ...
— Honey-Sweet • Edna Turpin
... has any money to give him, and just smart enough to keep the old man mesmerized. Lately Henry's been in a mighty serious peck of trouble. Last fall he got married to a girl here in town. Three weeks ago a family named Johnson, the most shiftless in the county, the real low-down white trash sort, living on a truck patch out Rollinson's way, heard that Henry was on a toot in town, spending money freely, and they went after him. A client of mine rents their ground to them and told me all about it. It seems ...
— In the Arena - Stories of Political Life • Booth Tarkington
... matter of fact," said the young man, "I've always rather hushed up my first name, because when I was christened they worked a low-down ...
— The Adventures of Sally • P. G. Wodehouse
... been done by some cowboys who were in town the day before, and the fellow they 'd done for was an ornery cuss of a half-breed Mexican, who was a whole lot better off dead than alive, anyway. He tried to play some low-down game on 'em at poker, and they just strung him up and rode off. Some of our fellows heard about it, and three or four of us decided it would be a good thing to let Coolidge know ...
— Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories • Florence Finch Kelly
... enough to win when you play with loaded dice. I get boiling mad when I think of these low-down, worthless rascals who don't stop at any meanness, ready to commit murder for fifteen cents. They ought to be treated worse than rattlesnakes. But, as you said just now, all this don't help Will Cummins. But Will is all right, John. You know that as ...
— Forty-one Thieves - A Tale of California • Angelo Hall


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