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View definitions for proletarian

proletarian

adjective as in blue-collar

adjective as in lower class

noun as in plebeian

noun as in proletariat

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"Wellness" is best understood as an elite alternative to the proletarian "health."

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This too may be characteristic of a Dame, although pairing that with her unstuffy humor and refreshingly proletarian quick wit engendered in us a familiarity.

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The play’s snotty actors, meanwhile, clearly consider their foe a proletarian rube and airily patronize him.

Red is one of those colors that’s both aspirational and proletarian at the same time.

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.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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