The affection of the lowly is like a wall of sand.
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Lowly
/ˈləʊli/
Synonyms for "lowly" (117 found)
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obeisantobscureobsequiousordinaryout of favorplainplebeianpoorprosaicretiringreverentialrudesecond ranksecond stringsecondaryservileshabbyshabby-genteelsimplesmall
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subsubalternsubjectsubordinatesubservientteachablethanklessthird rankthird stringthird-estateunappreciatedunassuminguncared foruncared-forunderprivilegedundistinguishedungenteelunimportantunlamentedunmissedunmournedunpopularunpretentiousunregrettedunsungunvaluedunwashedvulgarwithdrawingworkadayworkday
Adjective(5 words)
Noun(1 words)
servant class
Adverb(1 words)
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2 entriesadverb of mannerdescriptive adjective
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4 entriesCollocations
9 entrieslow statuslowly birthlowly bornlowly originlowly paid workerslowly positionlowly ranklowly statuslowly worker
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15 total sentences available.
Here I sit, deserted by all the world, I who am a king's daughter, and a false waiting-maid has forced me to take off my own clothes, and has taken my place with my bridegroom, while I have to fulfill the lowly office of goose-girl.
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Him now Saturnia sought, and thus in lowly strain: / "O AEolus, for Jove, of human kind / and Gods the sovran Sire, hath given to thee / to lull the waves and lift them with the wind, / a hateful people, enemies to me, / their ships are steering o'er the Tuscan sea, / bearing their Troy and vanquished gods away / to Italy."
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"Nor yet proud Ilion nor her towers had stood; / in lowly vales sequestered they abode."
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