proletarian

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

From Seattle Times • Feb. 7, 2024

Glenn Fitzgerald, as the Brusteins’ upstairs neighbor, a gay playwright; Julian De Niro, as a Black proletarian who asks Gloria to marry him; and Grotelueschen are all blessed with meaty, well-handled supporting roles.

From Washington Post • Feb. 27, 2023

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

Or they would disappear, alter themselves out of recognition, learn to speak with proletarian accents, get jobs in a factory, and live out their lives undetected in a back street.

From "1984" by George Orwell