How to Use lowball in a Sentence

lowball

verb
Definition of lowballnext
  • It became clear that the contractor had lowballed us on the cost of materials.
  • Management lowballed him in contract negotiations.
  • To put it another way, now isn’t the time to lowball an offer.
    — Brittany Anas, House Beautiful, 5 Mar. 2021
  • This move screams panic after the Hornets lowballed Walker and let Lamb walk.
    — Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 30 June 2019
  • Teams will probably use his lack of size, midround draft selection and injury to lowball him.
    — cleveland, 13 Mar. 2020
  • Also be sure to ask what surprises cropped up and whether the price tag increased over the course of the construction, both of which could be signs of a company that lowballs its bids.
    — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2023
  • That means a drafting team can’t lowball a player based on his medicals, as has happened on occasion in the past.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 June 2022
  • This result was achieved by lowballing all seven buildings.
    — Susanne Craig, The Seattle Times, 2 Oct. 2018
  • The former president has said that the documents, if anything, lowballed his wealth.
    — Byjennifer Peltz, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The lower offer sparked outcry in the community, which saw Kehoe as trying to lowball the county.
    — Molly Harbarger, OregonLive.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • This would encourage drugmakers to cut off countries that lowball them.
    — WSJ, 18 Sep. 2022
  • Critics of the voluntary deal say Trump’s definition of earnings is unclear and gave the president plenty of room to lowball the figure.
    — Time, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Should the Democrats hold themselves to higher standards than Republicans and continue to get lowballed?
    — Joshua Rivera, GQ, 8 Dec. 2017
  • Critics say cities wooed by dreams of reaping billions in new revenue and investment often lowball their budgets.
    — Linda Hervieux, NBC News, 12 Sep. 2017
  • The investigation found that Cooke lowballed the number of escaped fish by more than half, and did not do essential maintenance at its farm, causing the escape.
    — Lynda V. Mapes, The Seattle Times, 2 Feb. 2018
  • Directors of color were the most lowballed in streaming (76% of films budgeted below $20 million).
    — Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Mar. 2023
  • In 2019, a system used on millions of patients to prioritize access to special care for people with complex needs was found to lowball the needs of Black patients compared to white patients.
    — Tom Simonite, Wired, 21 June 2021
  • In my view, lowballing the value of your house to punish your husband financially is not an appropriate approach.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 20 July 2019
  • In my view, lowballing the value of your house in order to punish your husband financially is not an appropriate approach.
    — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 20 July 2019
  • First, Booz appeared to be lowballing the financial cost of its work with corporations and foreign governments, in some cases on the order of tens of millions of dollars, the complaint alleges.
    — David Nakamura, Aaron Gregg, Anchorage Daily News, 23 July 2023
  • Groups opposed to Putin have, since early in the crisis, insisted that the government is lowballing its coronavirus statistics.
    — NBC News, 14 Apr. 2020
  • The other five drugs were developed entirely in-house—and the authors lowballed cost estimates for developing these drugs.
    — Peter J. Pitts, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2017
  • For instance, a trader might cause a bond’s valuation to be lowballed at the beginning of the year, and then increased later to offset losses on other holdings in his or her portfolio.
    — Matt Robinson, Bloomberg.com, 31 Oct. 2017
  • This crew defiantly made cuts and lowballed the $2.4 billion corrections budget by $79 million.
    — Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 18 May 2018
  • Without the business know-how to haggle, gaming content creators tended to lowball or ask for essentially random numbers, as did their friend-of-friend managers.
    — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 14 Sep. 2020
  • In a recession, companies are more reluctant to hire and often lowball their offers for talented workers.
    — Serenity Gibbons, Forbes, 7 July 2022
  • And while there are many types of buyers that deal advisers are prepared to fend off—hostile ones, aggressive ones, those who lowball and then are willing to negotiate—Twitter faced an acquirer in Mr. Musk who was not in any deal playbook.
    — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 2 May 2022
  • That news is likely to irk some supporters, who have questioned their club's ambition in the midst of the 'lowballing' negotiation tactics in an unprecedented window for inflation.
    — SI.com, 24 Aug. 2017
  • While our country continues to recover from the carnage left by the Sacklers' greed, this family is now attempting to evade responsibility and lowball the millions of victims of the opioid crisis.
    — Nicole Chavez, CNN, 11 Sep. 2019
  • But many companies aren’t playing fair, putting artificially low salaries—or extremely wide ranges—on their postings, to avoid applicants figuring out if and when they’re being lowballed.
    — Jane Thier, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2023

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