lowdown

Noun

1. (uncountable) inside information, the story or truth.
2. (uncountable) A lowlife, a despicable person.

Adj

1. Unfair; scoundrelly; shameful.
2. seedy, sketchy, disreputable
3. down low; purporting to be heterosexual while engaged in sex with men.

Adv

Unfairly; dishonourably; in a deceitful or mean manner.

Etymology

Compound adjective of low + down in the sense of "humble" recorded in the 1540s, in the sense of "vulgar, far down the social scale" in 1888. Recorded as a noun in 1915 in the slang sense of secret or inside information.

Synonyms

bitchy

blue

caddish

cheap

coarse

common

depressed

hangdog

ignoble

ins and outs

inside information

lewd

low

lowbred

low-minded

mean

ornery

raffish

ratty

scurrilous

scurvy

shabby

shoddy

sordid

vile

vulgar

inner workings

inside curtain

hidden circumstances

inside facts

undisclosed circumstances

Translations

Fakten

notizie

informazioni

innere Verhältnisse

Insider-Informationen

Infos

πρόστυχος

γεγονότα

dessous

secret

㊙️

coulisses

information interne

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