proletarian
Example Sentences
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The play’s snotty actors, meanwhile, clearly consider their foe a proletarian rube and airily patronize him.
From New York Times
Red is one of those colors that’s both aspirational and proletarian at the same time.
From Seattle Times
Their devotion to Slowick meanwhile, hovers between that of a proletarian army in revolt against its oppressors and the legions of the undead commanded by figures of aristocratic despotism such as Dracula.
From Salon
The party declared him a “great proletarian revolutionary” and “long-tested Communist fighter.”
From Seattle Times
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
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