lowsome

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adjective

Characterised by lowness; marked by low status, quantity, or degree; lowish; lowly

Scrabble 12

Meanings

adjectivelowsome (comparative more lowsome, superlative most lowsome)

comparative more lowsome · superlative most lowsome

  1. Characterised by lowness; marked by low status, quantity, or degree; lowish; lowly

    Hanna added the last bit of kindling to the lowsome fire.

    2011, Janet Lee Carey, The Beast of Noor
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    When this lowsome rank, of which I'm one, hope to talk unthunk, sans garden, to You whose laughter at my wits supposedly laughs love?

    2011, Wayne Clifford, The Exile's Papers

    Here Jesus is challenged as to why he preaches unto publicans and others, aren't these people unworthy, why would you talk to such filthy and lowsome people. And Jesus tells them “I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

    2015, Walt English, “Right Beneath Our Noses, All This Time”

Origin

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