proles

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This level of self-regard in a writer and thinker as justifiably exalted as Smith may explain why our nation is turning on reading: aristocracies breed resentment among the proles.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2025

In the Roman Empire, the games at the Circus Maximus were an amusement and a distraction, a token to the proles as a substitute for being able to exercise any political power.

From Salon • Aug. 24, 2025

At that time he is merely the chairman of the Long Island State Park Commission, and his antagonists are not yet sympathetic proles but out-of-touch gentry.

From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2022

"The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the proles paid serious attention."

From The Guardian • Jan. 24, 2013

The great majority of proles did not even have telescreens in their homes.

From "1984" by George Orwell