Thus the plural of "lowlife" is "lowlifes", not "lowlives", according to Pinker. Hurles' models were typically ex-cons, hustlers, drifters, and lowlifes. At trial they were called "Gypsies", "lowlifes", "impostors" and "infractors". The rest is a good gangster story&colon; lowlifes and blondes translated into Chinese. This fed into Loos' lifelong fascination with lowlifes and loose women.