hard lives (noun) dog's life: very unhappy life
Sinonime: bastard, bluffer,
charlatan,
cheat,
counterfeit, crook, deceiver, double-dealer,
fake, forger, four-flusher, hoaxer, horse trader, impostor, mechanic, mountebank,
phony, play actor, pretender, quack, racketeer,
sham*, shark, swindler