lumpen

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In fact, the Shiv Sena really came of age as a lumpen organization, out to vanquish the South Indians from the city's landscape.

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  1. adjective Of or relating to dispossessed, often displaced people who have been cut off from the socioeconomic class with which they would ordinarily be identified: lumpen intellectuals unable to find work in their fields.
  2. adjective Of or relating to the lumpenproletariat.
  3. adjective Vulgar or common; plebeian: "Popular novelists and their mass readership remain a despised lumpen minority” (Leslie Fiedler).
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  • "Those who chose their own path" (as in growing long hair and listening to Yankee-Imperialist Rock & Roll) were denounced as worthless "lumpen" and "delinquents." —  American Thinker
  • The working class, well, they're a bit lumpen aren't they? —  The British National Party
  • So pity (if you feel exceptionally generous) the poor lumpen-Irish-landlord, not only are rents falling with no end in sight, but the government is rescinding more of their tax reliefs. —  Slugger O'Toole
  • So, if you feel exceptionally generous, pity the poor lumpen-Irish-landlord, not only are rents falling with no end in sight, but the government is rescinding more of their tax reliefs - mortgage interest rate relief chopped by —  Slugger O'Toole
  • Read the article, it argues that capitalism can get beyond the crisis through "lumpen" fiddling with it. —  rabble.ca - News for the rest of us
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  1. From German Lumpenproletariat, the lowest section of the proletariat; see lumpenproletariat.
 

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