proletarian
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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
Mr. Franzia did more than poke a proletarian finger in the wine industry’s elite image.
From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2022
They identified with the agrarian and proletarian revolutions and mingled with European artists who fled to Mexico from both world wars.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 10, 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
The subsidiary reason is that the Party member, like the proletarian, tolerates present-day conditions partly because he has no standards of comparison.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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