proletarian

Example Sentences

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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.

From Salon • Oct. 1, 2024

Red is one of those colors that’s both aspirational and proletarian at the same time.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 7, 2024

“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

Lamar, 34, is an astonishing technician, a keen observer of Black life, a proletarian superhero, an artist who reckons with moral weight in his work.

From New York Times • May 16, 2022

Or they would disappear, alter themselves out of recognition, learn to speak with proletarian accents, get jobs in a factory, and live out their lives undetected in a back street.

From "1984" by George Orwell