proles
Example Sentences
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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
All of the winners, and some of the losers, cycle through – mingling with the proles as much as they have to.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 29, 2016
The proles had taken a fancy to it, and in the midnight streets it competed with the still-popular “It Was Only a Hopeless Fancy.”
From "1984" by George Orwell
