Exceedingly degraded.
1843. Here we have a beautiful specimen of the dishonesty and low-flung slang of the clique.—Missouri Reporter, St. Louis, April 11.
1846. Who wants a parcel of low-flung outside barbarians to go in cahoot with us?—Oregon Spectator, May 28.
1850. He is classed with free negroes, rowdies, and low-flung draymen.—H. C. Lewis (‘Madison Tensas’), ‘Odd Leaves,’ p. 122 (Phila.).
1854. He was a Federalist, and denounced Jefferson as a low-flung demagogue, and Madison as his tool.—J. G. Baldwin, ‘Flush Times,’ p. 24.
1856. A Polka, did you say, Simblon—No—that ’s tres low-flung, excessivement or’nery.—Knick. Mag., xlvii. 409 (April).
1860. [Judge R. H. Field should] have spoken of the States of South Carolina and Alabama without the low-flung epithets of “fire-eaters,” “treason,” and “rebellion.”—Richmond Enquirer, Nov. 2, p. 1/6.
1861. Senator Brown of Mississippi has said that Northern men are sneaking, low-flung, and cowardly.—Oregon Argus, Aug. 10.
1861. It would be impossible to attempt a controversy with such low-flung dogs.—Letter to the same, Dec. 28.
