great unwashed
Example Sentences
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From the standpoint of the great unwashed these busts were simply delicious, taking down hedge fund managers, CEOs, at least one California winemaker, a Desperate Housewife and Aunt Becky from "Full House."
From Salon • Mar. 17, 2021
Instead she is selflessly educating the great unwashed by posting a video of her kids cleaning their hands with $39 Aesop soap.
From The Guardian • Mar. 31, 2020
It’s why they are nearly helpless against the good teams, even as they often look like world-beaters against the great unwashed of MLB.
From Seattle Times • May 19, 2019
The movie academy considers its “patrician duty to tell the great unwashed what they should be watching,’” not rewarding what viewers pay to see, Cameron told The Daily Beast.
From Washington Times • Feb. 22, 2017
I am now truly a member of the army of the great unwashed and unwashable—no, I take that back.
From Conscript 2989 Experiences of a Drafted Man by Crump, Irving
