lowly
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(s) low or inferior in station or quality
- a humble cottage
- a lowly parish priest
- a modest man of the people
- small beginnings
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(s) inferior in rank or status
- the junior faculty
- a lowly corporal
- petty officialdom
- a subordinate functionary
- (s) used of unskilled work (especially domestic work) menial, humble,
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(s) of low birth or station ("base" is archaic in this sense)
- baseborn wretches with dirty faces
- of humble (or lowly) birth