lumpen
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9.8
- adjective
- /ˈlʌmpən/
- Offensive
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lumpen (despectivo, jerga)
- On the one hand, we can be sure that this is an intentionally self-parodic projection onto the lumpen proletariat of the petroleum consumption patterns of your average successful SUV-driving Hollywood screenwriter.
- lumpen proletariat
Examples
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Our parents thought that the artistic life was the lumpen life, the life of a bandit, one without a future, and for this reason, singers were not considered to be responsible, not even for marriage.
Academic text (2004) -
The impoverishment of the countryside led to a large migration of peasants to cities, where, however, they failed to find employment and were thereby reduced to a restless lumpen proletariat.
Academic text (1992) -
The lumpen proletariat have trouble finding work.
Blog text (26) -
Really, it's the elites working over the lumpen proletariat.
Blog text (27) -
It no longer mattered whether you were middle class, working class, or part of the lumpen proletariat.
Fiction book (1990) -
But Gavin was also a social creature, so he discussed it with his mates too, and that included the schoolchildren and the sort of lumpen street people.
Blog text (10) -
In the 1990s, terms such as "dependency culture" and "underclass" were used to describe a lumpen population of people unwilling to work, dependent on public welfare, and easily drawn into casual drug use and selling.
Academic text (2007) -
Despite colonialist attempts to co-opt leaders and resources during this period, the lumpen proletariat forms and leads the struggle for liberation; they alone are incorruptible by materialism.
Academic text (1994) -
Many members of the community were considered lumpen because they lived in poverty and lacked access to education.
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The artist aimed to represent the struggles of the lumpen class in her latest exhibition.
Synonyms
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4.4
People who have less money, chances, or help than others
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6.6
People who are treated badly by those with power
Not belonging to a caste or social group and treated as outside society
Antonyms
How Marginalized
Surface Forms
Etymology
Lumpen comes from the German word Lumpen meaning 'rags' and was used in the phrase Lumpenproletariat to name the ragged, poor people left outside regular society. That is why lumpen now describes poor, uneducated, or socially left-out groups.