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Definition of lowly in English: lowlyadjectivelowlier, lowliest ˈləʊliˈloʊli 1Low in status or importance; humble. she'd been too good for her lowly position Example sentencesExamples - Despite their relatively lowly beginnings, however, all have even greater power than their predecessors.
- He came to live among us, not in ‘Buckingham Palace with royalty’ but as a carpenter in a humble home in the lowly village of Nazareth.
- A tan face signifies the status of a lowly peasant who has worked in the fields all her life.
- And like any self-respecting vanguard, this one started under very lowly circumstances.
- Despite its lowly status, mucus plays a valuable role in the body.
- Resigned to his status as a lowly hospital attendant at the Whitestone Sanitarium, Jerome dreams of the day he can once again ply the Hippocratic oath.
- Artists might live in a patron's household, as lowly servant or close companion.
- He had status, ultimate power and the chance to win the glory denied him on land by his lowly position in the rigid social hierarchy of 18th - century Britain.
- Ah well, at least I can get a concession ticket now, thanks to my lowly student status.
- Crooks refused to put too much emphasis on the club's lowly league position after all the problems they have encountered this season.
- From the lowly clerk, to the highly placed minister, everyone is corrupt.
- Brelghtmet will be still be disappointed with their lowly position as a number of their defeats have been close and could have gone either way.
- Johnny, too, believes the country community has been given a lowly status by politicians.
- We're lowly freshman, at the hands of the seniors.
- The lowly chow of the rural poor has gone highbrow.
- It was easy for Gabrielle to wish for a Cinderella life, for she was a lowly servant living a life of labor, obedience, and pain.
- Certainly they rarely showed any sign of looking like champions after a good opening spell, as Kirkcaldy showed a fighting spirit which belied their lowly status.
- For a lowly freshman she sure had a lot of excess attitude.
- In the last of the quarter-finals Castleford belied their lowly position to defeat Scarborough.
- I mean after all wasn't Jesus a humble lowly carpenter!
Synonyms humble, low, low-born, low-bred, low-ranking, plebeian, proletarian, peasant, poor common, ordinary, simple, plain inferior, ignoble, subordinate, obscure - 1.1 (of an organism) primitive or simple.
Example sentencesExamples - Even the lowliest creatures ensure they have a decent home before they start breeding.
- Yet even this lowly creature, which can circumvent sex and simply bud like a clump of daylilies, can mouth a Wnt sentence - and use it to guide development.
- Darwin's last major publication was a treatise on the lowly earthworm that exemplified the meticulous scientific method that brought him to fame.
- It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organized creatures.
adverb ˈləʊliˈloʊli To a low degree; in a low manner. Example sentencesExamples - ‘I figured for five years of absence, I could get a pretty dress and a nice party,’ she said lowly with a half smile.
- If he thought so lowly of me, what did everyone else think?
- Brandon whistled lowly, and I rolled my blue eyes.
- Wouldn't want you to see it before it's perfected, you might think lowly of my skills.
- Adelaide began to walk slowly down the cobblestone pavement, head hanging lowly, a shadow of her bright, vivacious, jovial self.
- He growled lowly, but then nodded toward her and gestured briskly toward the stage.
- The UK remains a relatively lowly taxed country compared with its European partners.
- He did well to desist: it is impossible to imagine him as the crushed, shuffling Willy Loman, a tragic hero designed for a lowly democratic society.
- He whispered so lowly it's amazing I even heard him.
- He heard his name being called and bowed lowly for everyone to see, but he kept his eyes on her.
- He sighed lowly and then emerged from his hiding space.
- He looked around nervously and grabbed her arm, hissing lowly.
- In lowly expressed genes, gene expression noise may cause a gene's expression level to dip below levels necessary for proper biological functions.
- ‘That discussion is not for tonight,’ he said lowly and continued eating.
- He finally turned around and said in measured tones lowly, ‘A relationship is built on trust.’
Derivatives adverb Then he said, bowing his head lowlily, for his pride was gone - "may we - that is, I and this, my poor device, withdraw from your palace?" Example sentencesExamples - The moment the door opened she curtsied, profoundly and lowlily, not raising her eyes from the ground, and advanced with John into the middle of the floor, both scarce able to move.
noun ˈləʊlɪnəsˈloʊlinəs ‘Such spectators revealed a mentality of lowliness and self-belittlement,’ he said. Example sentencesExamples - In other words, a text about high standing in the Kingdom of God is contradicted by words of lowliness and humility.
- In story after story in the gospels, humility and lowliness before the Lord seem to tug at his heart, opening his love and mercy.
- Choking back both tears and nausea, a single helpless salty tear dribbles down your cheek as you curse your new-found lowliness.
- And, in the process, he redefines himself as well, as one whose marriage to a wealthy heiress is legitimate despite the lowliness of the class position in which he began.
Rhymes aïoli, coaly, coley, Foley, goalie, guacamole, holey, Holi, holy, moly, pinole, ravioli, roly-poly, Rowley, shoaly, soli Definition of lowly in US English: lowlyadjectiveˈlōlēˈloʊli 1Low in status or importance; humble. she was too good for her lowly position Example sentencesExamples - Certainly they rarely showed any sign of looking like champions after a good opening spell, as Kirkcaldy showed a fighting spirit which belied their lowly status.
- For a lowly freshman she sure had a lot of excess attitude.
- It was easy for Gabrielle to wish for a Cinderella life, for she was a lowly servant living a life of labor, obedience, and pain.
- From the lowly clerk, to the highly placed minister, everyone is corrupt.
- The lowly chow of the rural poor has gone highbrow.
- And like any self-respecting vanguard, this one started under very lowly circumstances.
- A tan face signifies the status of a lowly peasant who has worked in the fields all her life.
- Brelghtmet will be still be disappointed with their lowly position as a number of their defeats have been close and could have gone either way.
- Johnny, too, believes the country community has been given a lowly status by politicians.
- He came to live among us, not in ‘Buckingham Palace with royalty’ but as a carpenter in a humble home in the lowly village of Nazareth.
- Despite its lowly status, mucus plays a valuable role in the body.
- In the last of the quarter-finals Castleford belied their lowly position to defeat Scarborough.
- Crooks refused to put too much emphasis on the club's lowly league position after all the problems they have encountered this season.
- Ah well, at least I can get a concession ticket now, thanks to my lowly student status.
- Resigned to his status as a lowly hospital attendant at the Whitestone Sanitarium, Jerome dreams of the day he can once again ply the Hippocratic oath.
- Despite their relatively lowly beginnings, however, all have even greater power than their predecessors.
- I mean after all wasn't Jesus a humble lowly carpenter!
- He had status, ultimate power and the chance to win the glory denied him on land by his lowly position in the rigid social hierarchy of 18th - century Britain.
- Artists might live in a patron's household, as lowly servant or close companion.
- We're lowly freshman, at the hands of the seniors.
Synonyms humble, low, low-born, low-bred, low-ranking, plebeian, proletarian, peasant, poor - 1.1 (of an organism) primitive or simple.
Example sentencesExamples - Darwin's last major publication was a treatise on the lowly earthworm that exemplified the meticulous scientific method that brought him to fame.
- Yet even this lowly creature, which can circumvent sex and simply bud like a clump of daylilies, can mouth a Wnt sentence - and use it to guide development.
- It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organized creatures.
- Even the lowliest creatures ensure they have a decent home before they start breeding.
adverbˈlōlēˈloʊli To a low degree; in a low manner. Example sentencesExamples - If he thought so lowly of me, what did everyone else think?
- He growled lowly, but then nodded toward her and gestured briskly toward the stage.
- Adelaide began to walk slowly down the cobblestone pavement, head hanging lowly, a shadow of her bright, vivacious, jovial self.
- He looked around nervously and grabbed her arm, hissing lowly.
- He heard his name being called and bowed lowly for everyone to see, but he kept his eyes on her.
- Wouldn't want you to see it before it's perfected, you might think lowly of my skills.
- He sighed lowly and then emerged from his hiding space.
- ‘I figured for five years of absence, I could get a pretty dress and a nice party,’ she said lowly with a half smile.
- In lowly expressed genes, gene expression noise may cause a gene's expression level to dip below levels necessary for proper biological functions.
- The UK remains a relatively lowly taxed country compared with its European partners.
- He whispered so lowly it's amazing I even heard him.
- ‘That discussion is not for tonight,’ he said lowly and continued eating.
- He finally turned around and said in measured tones lowly, ‘A relationship is built on trust.’
- Brandon whistled lowly, and I rolled my blue eyes.
- He did well to desist: it is impossible to imagine him as the crushed, shuffling Willy Loman, a tragic hero designed for a lowly democratic society.
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