Thesaurus / downtrodden
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synonyms for downtrodden
- destitute
- distressed
- exploited
- needy
- oppressed
- persecuted
- a slave to
- abject
- at one's beck and call
- at one's feet
- at one's mercy
- have-not
- helpless
- in one's clutches
- in one's pocket
- in one's power
- led by the nose
- mistreated
- overcome
- subjugated
- subservient
- suppressed
- tyrannized
- under one's thumb
- underdog
- underfoot
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Despite Frese having just three seasons of experience as a head coach, Yow saw her as an overachiever who quickly turns around downtrodden programs.
BRENDA FRESE, CLOSING IN ON WIN NO. 500, HAS MADE MARYLAND WOMEN’S BASKETBALL A JUGGERNAUTKAREEM COPELANDFEBRUARY 4, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThe media sometimes depicts Republican voters as the poor and downtrodden — as the people that globalization left behind in opioid-ravaged Rust Belt towns — but that’s not exactly true.
WHY THE REPUBLICAN CULT OF VICTIMHOOD IS SO DANGEROUSMAX BOOTDECEMBER 11, 2020WASHINGTON POSTThe other has become a symbol of hope for a downtrodden, underserved, and at risk community, begging for justice and equity.
MORNING REPORT: NEW MAYOR, COUNCIL TAKE OVERVOICE OF SAN DIEGODECEMBER 11, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGOThe main lesson he took from that disaster was how brutally those in power can crush the downtrodden who dare to question the nature of things.
FIVE SCIENTISTS ON THE HEROES WHO CHANGED THEIR LIVES - ISSUE 93: FORERUNNERSALAN LIGHTMAN, HOPE JAHREN, ROBERT SAPOLSKY,DECEMBER 2, 2020NAUTILUSMany high-profile investors made the pilgrimage to a swampy, downtrodden suburb of Miami, where they became convinced Abovitz was building a kind of Apple for computers strapped to people’s faces.
MAGIC LEAP TRIED TO CREATE AN ALTERNATE REALITY. ITS FOUNDER WAS ALREADY IN ONEVERNE KOPYTOFFSEPTEMBER 26, 2020FORTUNEChances are, the downtrodden will more than meet those paltry expectations.
THE CHAMP’S BIG COMEBACK: WHY BEATEN-DOWN VALUE STOCKS ARE POISED TO THRIVESHAWN TULLYAUGUST 18, 2020FORTUNEWhen one has been downtrodden one's whole life, one becomes accustomed to it, and besides she loved the down-treader.
THE BUTTERFLY HOUSEMARY E. WILKINS FREEMANFrom ind to ind of the land, the downtrodden serfs of Ireland are rising in their millions.
MY NEW CURATEP.A. SHEEHANJust as oppressive and as bitter as the weeping that issues from the downtrodden has been before, it will eternally be.
THE HISTORY OF YIDDISH LITERATURE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURYLEO WIENERAnd thus, by always striving to be something higher, the downtrodden grass plant became a Man.
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