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
That moniker comes from a violent 1967 peasant uprising against oppressive landlords in Naxalbari, a village in the shadow of the Himalayan foothills in northeast India.
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Dhruv Tikekar,
CNN Money,
30 May 2026
Yet for critics of this militarized approach, the army has done less to tame rebellions than to terrorize the island’s peasant communities.
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Patrick Peralta,
The Conversation,
28 May 2026
Wear with just a white bralette or a peasant top, fully tapping into the historical allusions.
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Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
26 May 2026
The painting shows a lush, verdant Italian landscape, whose richness allows even peasants to enjoy leisurely strolls along its paths.
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Tyler Green,
The Atlantic,
21 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for peasant
Dhruv Tikekar,
CNN Money,
30 May 2026
Yet for critics of this militarized approach, the army has done less to tame rebellions than to terrorize the island’s peasant communities.
—
Patrick Peralta,
The Conversation,
28 May 2026
Wear with just a white bralette or a peasant top, fully tapping into the historical allusions.
—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
26 May 2026
The painting shows a lush, verdant Italian landscape, whose richness allows even peasants to enjoy leisurely strolls along its paths.
—
Tyler Green,
The Atlantic,
21 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for peasant
Recent Examples of Synonyms for peasant
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The only leaders more buffoonish and lethal than the fairground hucksters elected in our failing democracies are the omnipotent clowns of tyranny.
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Up until his first day of filming Jackass, Steve-O was a clown in nightclubs, cruise ships and at a flea-market circus.
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Marlowe, the son of a poor Canterbury cobbler, and Shakespeare, the son of a Stratford glover and alderman, were both unlikely artistic geniuses, provincials in a nation in which social class was rigidly fixed.
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Sanders is a Catholic priest and former Augustinian provincial in California and lives in the Augustinian community in North Park.
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Soon there was an altercation at the front desk, when a Haitian upbraided the American peons about not getting her free stuff fast enough.
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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.
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Carrie raves to Seema about her creative connection with Duncan, and during another writing session, Duncan helps Carrie with her faulty printer and gawks at her closet full of designer dresses and shoes.
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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.
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Professional ski mountaineer Brody Leven only owns a suit to go to Washington with Protect Our Winters.
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For three days, Nepali mountaineer Dawa Sherpa was trapped deep inside an Everest crevasse, surviving on biscuits, chocolates and chunks of ice, while back home his family had already begun mourning his death.
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Big Cedar Lodge Ridgedale, Missouri For a luxury-meets-rustic escape, head to Big Cedar Lodge overlooking Table Rock Lake.
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Cozy rustic Certain styles readily lend themselves to small spaces.
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“Peasant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peasant. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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