as in low
belonging to the class of people of low social or economic rank
a TV producer who knew what the unwashed masses wanted—and unhesitatingly gave it to them
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as in masses
people looked down upon as ignorant and of the lowest class
Aunt Edna was fond of snootily reminding us that we need not take our manners from the great unwashed
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Recent Examples of unwashed
Essence, 22 July 2025
Following the exit of John Galliano, Glenn Martens made his debut as creative director of Maison Margiela with an Artisanal collection honoring the house’s legacy of provocative, avant-garde fashions while also sticking an unwashed thumb in the eye of the numbing quiet luxury juggernaut.
—Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 11 July 2025
Water, shellfish and unwashed fruits and vegetables can also harbor infectious parasite eggs.
—Bill Sullivan, The Conversation, 28 May 2025
Besides his unwashed look, Cyrus has become embroiled in various scandals in recent years and is supposedly struggling to get work, according to the Daily Mail.
—Martha Ross, Mercury News, 21 Apr. 2025
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Adjective
Carefully section your dry, unwashed hair with clips to help with the application process.
—Essence, 22 July 2025
Following the exit of John Galliano, Glenn Martens made his debut as creative director of Maison Margiela with an Artisanal collection honoring the house’s legacy of provocative, avant-garde fashions while also sticking an unwashed thumb in the eye of the numbing quiet luxury juggernaut.
—Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 11 July 2025
Water, shellfish and unwashed fruits and vegetables can also harbor infectious parasite eggs.
—Bill Sullivan, The Conversation, 28 May 2025
Besides his unwashed look, Cyrus has become embroiled in various scandals in recent years and is supposedly struggling to get work, according to the Daily Mail.
—Martha Ross, Mercury News, 21 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unwashed
Adjective
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The report said that water storage in Washington’s five reservoirs in the Yakima River Basin has dropped sharply, bringing levels, at times, to some of the lowest measured since record-keeping started in 1971.—
Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
14 Sep. 2025
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The ultra-low-cost model clearly isn't providing customer satisfaction, even if the fares look cheap.—
Christopher Elliott,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Yet Empire Falls translates into a lumpen, stodgy miniseries, despite a fine central performance from Harris as a divorced diner owner with deep roots in the town and a structure that allows the past to keep informing and enriching the present.—
Scott Tobias,
Vulture,
14 Apr. 2024
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Rhys spent decades, often isolated and paranoid, in lumpen houses and apartments in and out of London, before success arrived late.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
20 June 2022
Noun
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There was little-to-no doubt Jurgen Klopp’s side were going to defeat Ralf Rangnick’s under-interim-management rabble that day.—
Carl Anka,
The Athletic,
4 Jan. 2025
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Advertisement From start to finish, pure madness, amid a rabble that never calmed, never quieted, never quit.—
Bill Plaschke,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Oct. 2024
Adjective
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Even a humble vape pen could serve a website until too many curious visitors try to connect.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Sep. 2025
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Don’t include the humble brags.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Today, the best fashion schools have made sustainability a core principle, and the designers graduating from the world’s best design programs, like Nale, are looking at their future careers through a different lens than what the general populace is used to expecting from Fashion.—
Rachel Elspeth Gross,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Rather than unifying and pacifying a populace, this kind of media encouraged idiosyncratic, extreme views.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Below that sits the pedestrian CLK 500 and plebeian CLK 350.—
Jeremy Korzeniewski,
Robb Report,
26 Feb. 2025
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Across the lake, on the plebeian side, up the shoreline a mile or so, in the heart of downtown West Palm Beach, stand twin 32-story towers dubbed Trump Plaza of the Palm Beaches.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
8 Jan. 2025
Noun
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More generally, the Nepalese public criticized the government’s measures disproportionate impact on ordinary users.—
Nir Kshetri,
The Conversation,
14 Sep. 2025
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That's significant because the Environmental Protection Agency cited it in its attempts to roll back its prior finding that greenhouse gases posed a danger to the US public.—
Nate Anderson,
ArsTechnica,
12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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This new proletarian culture was personified in the ideal of the New Soviet Man.—
Sonja Fritzsche,
The Conversation,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Unwashed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unwashed. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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