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
The party declared him a “great proletarian revolutionary” and “long-tested Communist fighter.”
From Seattle Times • Dec. 5, 2022
Both he and Mr. Fetterman, who touted his years as mayor of a hard-hit steel town outside Pittsburgh, adopted the hooded sweatshirt as a proletarian uniform.
From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2022
The social critic Mike Davis once called these “stealth houses” that hide their “luxurious qualities with proletarian or gangster facades.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2022
There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama, and entertainment generally.
From "1984" by George Orwell
