a. Also 89 -lifed. [f. LOW a. + live-, LIFE + -ED2.] Of persons: Living a low life; vulgar, mean. Hence of actions, expressions, etc.
1760. C. Johnston, Chrysal (1822), I. 155. She could not think of letting any common low-lived fellow come near her. Ibid., III. 177. How can you take delight in such a low-lived trick?
1766. Goldsm., Vic. W., xi. Your Ladyship should except your own things in the Ladys Magazine. I hope youll say theres nothing low-lived there?
1781. J. Ripley, Sel. Orig. Let., 77. The low-lifed fellow who wrote this letter.
183648. B. B. Walsh, Aristoph., 46, note. Aristophanes is unmerciful upon low-lived, vulgar people.
1882. Fr. A. Kemble, Later Life, I. 82. An ignoble, low-lived expression occasionally startled one, on a countenance noble and intellectual.