proletarian
Example Sentences
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Most of the things on the 112-item list cost less than $100 and fulfill a proletarian need instead of gesturing toward patrician signaling.
From Salon • Nov. 4, 2023
“In its often tearful compassion, its eloquent rage and its vengeful delight in proletarian snook-cocking, ‘Oh Happy Day’ deserves to be called Dickensian,” wrote literary scholar Peter Conrad, reviewing the book for Britain’s Observer newspaper.
From Washington Post • Oct. 19, 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
I could drift along like this, in some dreary proletarian idyll, except for two things.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
