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  • noun Plural form of hayseed.

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Examples

  • To infer that those who do not support your boy-wonder are ill educated hayseeds is just a sign of your immaturity and arrogance.

    Americans worried about price of gas 2008

  • The firm that I used to work for also represented many of the police unions, and thus I've dealt with a lot of the "hayseeds" outside of court as well.

    People v. Calvin Moore--Founded Suspicion is Not Enough 2006

  • Jimmie had been taught to laugh at them as "hayseeds"; intellectually he regarded them as relics of a vanished age so, of course, he could not listen to their talk very long without "butting in".

    Jimmie Higgins Upton Sinclair 1923

  • These are the people that we call "hayseeds"; if we could plant some more such "seeds," it would be a good job.

    Three Acres and Liberty Bolton Hall 1896

  • This had been in existence only ten years and some of the "hayseeds" were still discussing the "pros and cons" of higher education for females.

    Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction Compiled and edited by Hallie Q. Brown 250 p., ill. Hallie Quinn 1864

  • They were perceived to be "hayseeds" and helpless victims of droughts, floods and crop failures.

    OpEdNews 2010

  • I do not find anything in this letter that verifies the intellect of the writer (or even concedes its importance), but it does display her own narrow-mindedness in what could be described as quality of people, her own bigotry for those that have a possible misfortune of a lesser education (or inferior indoctrination), the politically safe attack on Christians, and a disdain for those "hayseeds" that work with their hands.

    Memphis Commercial Appeal Stories 2010

  • They were perceived to be "hayseeds" and helpless victims of droughts, floods and crop failures.

    OpEdNews 2010

  • They were perceived to be "hayseeds" and helpless victims of droughts, floods and crop failures.

    OpEdNews 2010

  • I suppose that shows just how impotent these hayseeds with little dicks really are …

    Think Progress » ‘Impeach Obama’ billboard ‘not meant to allege any impeachable offense.’ 2010

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