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great unwashed
noun as in crowd
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Weak match
noun as in hoi polloi
noun as in masses
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in ruck
Strong matches
- army
- array
- blowout
- bunch
- cattle
- circle
- clique
- cloud
- cluster
- company
- concourse
- confluence
- conflux
- congeries
- congregation
- coterie
- crew
- crush
- deluge
- drove
- faction
- flock
- flood
- gaggle
- group
- herd
- horde
- host
- jam
- legion
- lot
- mass
- masses
- meet
- mob
- multitude
- muster
- organization
- pack
- party
- people
- posse
- press
- rabble
- score
- scores
- sellout
- set
- stream
- surge
- swarm
- throng
- troupe
- tumult
Weak match
Example Sentences
To me, it speaks to the elitism and shallowness of the trio that they are repelled by folks who are not as upscale as they are — they are repelled by “the great unwashed.”
The dress code for Monday's red carpet is The Garden of Time, which shares its name with a dystopian tale written in 1962 by JG Ballard, in which the last bastion of the super-rich is overrun by a working-class mob of the "great unwashed".
At Toro, his long hair, earring and fondness for holidays in Ibiza had endeared him to the great unwashed.
I was a member of the great unwashed who attended public school.
He eventually played with more than 100 bands, including the Great Unwashed, the Sundae Painters and Monsterland, and lived for almost 30 years in New York, where he formed the band the Mad Scene.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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