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peon

noun as in menial worker

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During the same press conference in Dhaka, she said she had taken action against a household assistant – or peon - after he allegedly amassed $34 million.

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Not afraid but brave, not weak but empowered, not peons but partners.

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“He was the highest-paid actor in the world. I was a peon.”

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The message couldn't be clearer: there's a strict hierarchy here, and you peons in the middle are at the absolute bottom.

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It's less clear whether that translates into sympathy for the peons who raided the Capitol at Trump's bidding.

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

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