lowdown

Lowdown Mr. Lee trained the elephants to shoot mud and water from their trunks whenever threatened.

He treated me mighty sorry—it was lowdown and mean all the way through, the way he done me—but I didn't mean him no real harm.

Here's the behind-the-scenes lowdown on Luna City life and a promoter of Martian dancing girls, vaudeville, and—other things.

You can't give up a lowdown trade That your ancestors began; A butcher butchers things, and yet He's the tenderest-hearted man.

He could be lowdown and vulgar enough to ask right out if he wished.

One is lowdown and contemptible and nasty, and the other is expedient.