as in clown
a person of low social status
Those snobs treat anyone who lives on the "wrong" side of town like an insignificant peasant.
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Recent Examples of peasant
By 1917 in Russia, housewives were marching in city streets to protest a lack of food, peasants were seizing land, and many Russians saw the czarist government as irrelevant, even treasonous.
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Margaret MacMillan, The Atlantic, 30 Apr. 2025
What began in Manchester with an 1819 massacre of peasants gave birth to the world's first workers' movements, trade unions and an idea of equality that has fueled social justice and labor movements around the world.
—Lauren Frayer, NPR, 19 Apr. 2025
French peasants at work, rendered with maximum sentiment by the likes of Jean-François Millet.
—Blake Gopnik, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025
Megan Thee Stallion brought the Hottie Cam into the Met Gala to give us peasants a rare look inside the exclusive fundraising benefit for the arts.
—Jessica Wang, EW.com, 6 May 2025
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Margaret MacMillan, The Atlantic, 30 Apr. 2025
What began in Manchester with an 1819 massacre of peasants gave birth to the world's first workers' movements, trade unions and an idea of equality that has fueled social justice and labor movements around the world.
—Lauren Frayer, NPR, 19 Apr. 2025
French peasants at work, rendered with maximum sentiment by the likes of Jean-François Millet.
—Blake Gopnik, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025
Megan Thee Stallion brought the Hottie Cam into the Met Gala to give us peasants a rare look inside the exclusive fundraising benefit for the arts.
—Jessica Wang, EW.com, 6 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for peasant
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Also, this was not a good week for billionaires as a socialist Muslim won a long-shot victory in the NYC Democratic primary, partly on the promise to raise taxes among the highest income earners, and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos starred in a clown show wedding in Venice.—
Paul Bedard,
The Washington Examiner,
28 June 2025
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Ayanna Pressley, another blow-in-drifter (from Chicago), pole vaulted from the City Council clown show to the U.S. House.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
25 June 2025
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Sanders is a Catholic priest and former Augustinian provincial in California and lives in the Augustinian community in North Park.—
Gary Sanders,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 May 2025
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The same year, he was appointed as a provincial for the order.—
Caitlin McFall,
FOXNews.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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Not only does the peon and con man Tom end up refashioning himself as the rich and carefree Dickie, but Highsmith’s novel itself was a retelling of Henry James’s The Ambassadors.—
Hillary Kelly,
The Atlantic,
19 Apr. 2024
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Not afraid but brave, not weak but empowered, not peons but partners.—
Ashley Lee,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Feb. 2024
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Here, the blurring is visual: Sometimes Leonard floats into the past looking like Gere, who wears the character without a shred of self-protection as the lens gawks at his raw skin.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Dec. 2024
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The Esprit's shape, arguably more avant-garde despite its age, consistently pegs the gawk meter.—
John Phillips,
Car and Driver,
18 June 2020
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The towering peaks and glaciers have made the park a destination for hardy mountaineers for decades.—
Graham Averill,
Outside Online,
20 June 2025
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Set against the backdrop of World War II and the Chinese invasion of Tibet, Jean-Jacques Annaud’s film follows Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer (Brad Pitt), who, after being captured by British forces in India, escapes a prisoner-of-war camp and makes his way to the secluded kingdom of Tibet.—
Travis Bean,
Forbes,
22 Feb. 2025
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Then comes lunch, a multi-course celebration of Piedmontese cooking—rich, savory, and a little rustic, paired with wines that taste even better when someone else has chosen them for you.—
Jordi Lippe-McGraw,
Forbes.com,
9 June 2025
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Classical Rudersdal, Denmark, situated beside Copenhagen and along the open coast, exists in a perpetual tug-of-war between the rustic and the modern.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
11 Apr. 2025
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“Peasant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peasant. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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