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proletarian

adjective as in blue-collar

adjective as in lower-class

noun as in plebeian

noun as in proletariat

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Example Sentences

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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To an even greater extent than the neoliberal economists, she fashioned an ideology that is simply the worst of the Marxist-Leninism she escaped stood on its head, with a heroic Übermensch substituting for the proletarian masses.

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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.

Wrapped around it are curved forms, wiry and metallic, their composition looking strangely like a shattered hammer and sickle — an emblem of proletarian solidarity between agricultural and industrial workers in the Russian state, now torn asunder.

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

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