adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
position
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In the end she'd been too good for her lowly position .
status
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Some parasites admit their lowly status and creep into the body of their host.
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If a flagrant oversight like this could occur it says little for the prospects of men of lowly status being correctly recorded.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a lowly trainee
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After many years of declining popularity, the lowly rhubarb is making a comeback in both gourmet and gardening circles.
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And the unused stationery was stacked in a general office for use by lowly clerks.
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I had not shone at school but I believed that I could do better than their lowly estimation of my capability.
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I soon found that practically everyone had authority over the lowly stewardess.
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It tells of a lowly and insignificant civil servant Poprischin, who falls in love with his boss's beautiful daughter Sophie.
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The Clippers already have benefited with three wins against lowly Vancouver, and have two more games left against expansion opponents.
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We have seen charts that describe the organisational chart of a police authority and yet miss off the lowly police constable.
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We should overlook the trampled grass in the square and the lowly origins of the glistening fountain.