canaille

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Noun
  • On the one hand, the proletarian contributes every bit of on-the-clock activity to the value of the resulting commodity.
    Benjamin Kunkel, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The song, now considered a protest anthem, is about a social revolution in which French proletarians stand against the ruling class — in this case, an oppressive monarchy.
    Raven Brunner, People.com, 24 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • So much for plebeians like myself, who tended to plants at a local nursery for minimum wage at 17.
    Chris Branch, New York Times, 29 May 2025
  • Its practical function: No one, neither courtier nor plebeian, could stand close to the queen, conspicuous in her splendid isolation.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • This idea is particularly demonstrated through Ramza’s relationship with his best friend, a commoner named Delita.
    Hayes Madsen, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The mysterious spirit animal messengers that Ji-noo sends, a tiger and a magpie who represent the nobles and commoners of many Korean folk tales, needed to be otherworldly without being fully demonic.
    Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In those intervening 35 years, China had moved 800 million rural peasants — living in extreme poverty on US$2 a day — into city apartments and integrated them into the global economy.
    Peter Leyden, Big Think, 7 Oct. 2025
  • More than two million peasant families were given land.
    Nik Kowsar, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
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“Canaille.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/canaille. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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