the gutter

noun

: the lowest or poorest conditions of human life

He squandered all his money and wound up in the gutter.

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Siri's reputation has long been in the gutter—Apple Intelligence promises to change that, but Siri is almost the same in iOS 18.1. —

Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 28 Oct. 2024 Those ubiquitous mussel shells were gathered from the gutter and ground into low-cost bricks and paving slabs; a blight turned to homes. —

Charlie Campbell / Jakarta, TIME, 14 Oct. 2024 Will the Abbott crew lift the gang up to nobler heights, or will they be dragged into the gutter for some classic Sunny shenanigans? —

Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 4 Oct. 2024 And these two individuals, their very bright, have a chance to play above the board and not go into the gutter or with sniper fire one time after the other, in a rhetorical way. —

Abc News, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for the gutter