Riffraff vs Lowlife - What's the difference?
riffraff | lowlife |
The rabble; crowds; the common people.
low class, ghetto, indigent
An untrustworthy, despicable, or disreputable person, especially one suspected of being a criminal.
As nouns the difference between riffraff and lowlife
is that riffraff is the rabble; crowds; the common people while lowlife is an untrustworthy, despicable, or disreputable person, especially one suspected of being a criminal.riffraff
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* riff-raffNoun
(-)- They started charging a modest fee in an effort to keep the riffraff out.
lowlife
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* low-lifeNoun
(en-noun)- They say all the lowlifes used to hang out at the docks and plot their despicable crimes, before being elected to public office.