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US
/ˈɫoʊɫi/
]
[ UK /lˈəʊli/ ]
[ UK /lˈəʊli/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
low or inferior in station or quality
a humble cottage
a modest man of the people
a lowly parish priest
small beginnings - used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)
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inferior in rank or status
petty officialdom
a subordinate functionary
the junior faculty
a lowly corporal -
of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense)
baseborn wretches with dirty faces
of humble (or lowly) birth
How To Use lowly In A Sentence
- A spokesman said: ‘Snow will continue through the day with a few dry interludes and it will slowly improve by the afternoon with snow turning more showery.’
- Epsom showed a great deal of heart considering their lowly league position but there are days when courage counts for naught and this was one of them.
- Fructose is absorbed more slowly than glucose and galactose. The Dictionary of Nutritional Health
- He slowly depressed the plunger and once the syringe was empty, withdrew the needle and stepped back.
- Lift your feet a few inches off the floor and slowly rock backwards and forwards. Healthy By Nature
- Slowly it drifts down across the sea-curled weeds, the anchored life of the marine world.
- The fact that other reports of excess heat do not produce these hydrides and can evolve over days or weeks suggests the opposite condition of starvation where oscillation is delayed and slow but still occurs over time as the atomic gas slowly accumulates the velocities needed to exchange time dilation for energy. Will 2010 be the Year of Zero Point Energy?
- Everything grows very slowly there and all northern hemisphere herbs are grown under shade cloth - the herbs can't manage the intense dry heat of midsummer.
- It found itself subjected to harsh rain it was ill equipped for, dissolving the sandstone facades of it's buildings slowly, even as the people chose not to lift their eyes and notice it.
- By the time they were lurching slowly along the cart track the wind had dropped, letting the clouds gather.
