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
But if hope lies with the proles, and that extraordinary example of the proles, is this woman singing a song about lost love and memory and yearning while hanging out diapers.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2021
In George Orwell’s “1984,” the proles are spared a life of constant surveillance, while higher-ranking members of society are exposed to Big Brother’s watchful eye.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2017
"Ta", in other words, is the go-to informality for poshos making nice to those they suspect to be proles but whom they want on side for reasons too boring to get into.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2013
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
