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Low-life (plural: low-lifes) (or lowlife) is a term for a person who is of low social status due to their low moral character.Examples of people typically referred to as low-life include bullies, criminals, drug dealers, freeloaders, bums, drunkards, gangsters, sex offenders, pimps, aggressive panhandlers, scammers, and thieves.
The central idea of this concept was that in "degenerative" illness, there is a steady decline in mental functioning and social adaptation from one generation to the other. For example, there might be an intergenerational development from nervous character to major depressive disorder, to overt psychotic illness and, finally, to severe and ...
Degenerate art, a term adopted in the 1920s by the Nazi Party in Germany to describe modern art Decadent movement, often associated with degeneracy; Dégénération, a single by Mylène Farmer; Degeneration, an 1892 book by Max Nordau; Resident Evil: Degeneration, a 2008 film "Degenerate", a song by Blink-182 from the album Dude Ranch
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Ebonics remained a little-known term until 1996. It does not appear in the 1989 second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, nor was it adopted by linguists. [14] The term became widely known in the United States due to a controversy over a decision by the Oakland School Board to denote and recognize the primary language (or sociolect or ethnolect) of African-American youths attending ...
Michael Fabricant listed the qualities of adults aged 50 and over as he urged the Government to do more to support them back into employment.
An orgy in Imperial Rome, by Henryk Siemiradzki Romans during the Decadence, by Thomas Couture. Decadence was a late-19th-century movement emphasizing the need for sensationalism, egocentricity, bizarre, artificial, perverse, and exotic sensations and experiences.
The majority of Aaron Spelling’s estate went to his wife, Candy Spelling, after he died of complications from a stroke in 2006. He also reportedly suffered from Alzheimer's disease .