proletarian
Example Sentences
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Red is one of those colors that’s both aspirational and proletarian at the same time.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 7, 2024
Most of the things on the 112-item list cost less than $100 and fulfill a proletarian need instead of gesturing toward patrician signaling.
From Salon • Nov. 4, 2023
Both he and Mr. Fetterman, who touted his years as mayor of a hard-hit steel town outside Pittsburgh, adopted the hooded sweatshirt as a proletarian uniform.
From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2022
The social critic Mike Davis once called these “stealth houses” that hide their “luxurious qualities with proletarian or gangster facades.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2022
Ana Diaz, a student who, like Miguel, wore the insignia of the raised fist, observed that only rich women suffer from such pains; proletarian women do not complain even when they give birth.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
