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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 wouldn’t be the first time BMW took some good cues from the generally proletarian Suzuki.

Dos Passos interweaved the stories of his more proletarian subjects with biographies of some well-known Americans.

Am I going to get a "knock on the door" asking me to explain how Fidel's proletarian paradise knew so much about the Poll Tax?

Socialists are very anxious to disassociate these from the "Proletarian" Sunday-schools which teach atheism.

It should be obvious that a proletarian state would be tempted by this precedent.

I shall always think of him in his proletarian grey woollen underdrawers and undershirt.

Whether capitalist or proletarian, reformer or liberal, we have all along been behaving and thinking in soviet fashion.

Their support for a genuinely proletarian revolution can hardly be expected, on Loria's own theory.

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

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