Possible Clues:

• Sadly, I belong in a lower category
• Soldiers leave one French city base
• Being low, unfinished, poor, unworthy
• Using strange lingo, be of low birth
• Dishonourable, roughly elbowing wife out
• One glib, slippery — of low character
• 'Far from the madding crowd's . . . . . . . strife'
• Not worthy
• Grand personage held in French island base
• Dishonourable toff in island with broken leg