proletarian
Example Sentences
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Their devotion to Slowick meanwhile, hovers between that of a proletarian army in revolt against its oppressors and the legions of the undead commanded by figures of aristocratic despotism such as Dracula.
From Salon
The party declared him a “great proletarian revolutionary” and “long-tested Communist fighter.”
From Seattle Times
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
The experience, and her later workshop jobs, instilled in her a proletarian ethos very different from the aesthetic high-mindedness taught in England’s art schools.
From New York Times
Mr. Franzia did more than poke a proletarian finger in the wine industry’s elite image.
From New York Times
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