Synonyms of foot soldiers

foot soldiers

noun

plural of foot soldier

as in laborers

a person who does very hard or dull work

he's been a foot soldier for several environmental organizations over the years

Synonyms & Similar Words

• laborers
• workers
• slaves
• drudgers
• dogsbodies
• peons
• toilers
• grubs
• pluggers
• grubbers
• sloggers
• drones
• grunts
• drudges
• serfs
• workhorses

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• shirkers
• goldbricks
• slugs
• loafers
• idlers
• sluggards
• lazybones
• slouches

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of foot soldiers

Before the whole scene of domestic bliss is cut short, Cruz and Josie discuss their looming irrelevance as human foot soldiers in a future of wars fought by machines, finding brief solace in each other’s out-of-uniform bodies. — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 9 Aug. 2026

Getty Images Artillery used to be the biggest threat to foot soldiers, now most casualties are caused by drones. — David Hambling, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

Barton’s pseudo-scholarship furnished Christian nationalists with valuable ammunition, but the movement needed foot soldiers. — Michael Luo, New Yorker, 14 June 2026

The result is child foot soldiers hired as hitmen, becoming both the perpetrators of crime and the victims of criminals. — ABC News, 12 June 2026

Traffickers recruit young people, including minors, to serve as foot soldiers in their bloody quest to control drug-trafficking routes across Mexico. — Steve Fisher, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2026

But, as academic mastery has become secondary to political consciousness, students are no longer being molded into informed citizens so much as into ideological foot soldiers. — Courtney Corbello, Oc Register, 4 Apr. 2026

Fans became zealous cultural foot soldiers, streaming, voting and building global communities on Instagram, TikTok and Twitter. — Dan Bilefsky, HollywoodReporter, 21 Mar. 2026

His two foot soldiers now riddled with bullets had bombed the Beth Israel Congregation in Jackson on a foggy night nine months earlier and were en route to bomb a Jewish leader’s home when police gunned them down. — Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 4 Feb. 2026