proletarian
Example Sentences
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The party declared him a “great proletarian revolutionary” and “long-tested Communist fighter.”
From Seattle Times • Dec. 5, 2022
“In its often tearful compassion, its eloquent rage and its vengeful delight in proletarian snook-cocking, ‘Oh Happy Day’ deserves to be called Dickensian,” wrote literary scholar Peter Conrad, reviewing the book for Britain’s Observer newspaper.
From Washington Post • Oct. 19, 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
He isn’t altogether wrong, but Maurizio marries her anyway, and finds brief happiness working for his in-laws, trading in his cut-to-measure suits for proletarian coveralls.
From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2021
I could drift along like this, in some dreary proletarian idyll, except for two things.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
