downtrodden
adjective
tyrannized over; oppressed.
downtrod
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a variation of
downtrodden.
Example Sentences
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The husks of his dead creed, downtrod and dry, Are powerless now as some dishonoured spell, Some aged Pythia in her priestly clothes, Some widow'd witch divining by the dead.
From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Jean Ingelow
And she rippled on about the freedom of her soul and her downtrod sisters and this here New Dawn.
From Somewhere in Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson
"Now, we ain't downtrod none in this country," finally began Doc Tomlinson, who had made political speeches in Kansas.
From Heart's Desire by Emerson Hough
Exiled and wandering, from this land outcast, One day He shall return, and set the last Crown on these sins that have his house downtrod.
From The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes by Gilbert Murray
Speed, speed the day, O righteous God, To break the fetters, dry the tears, To raise the slave, so long downtrod, Through the dark age of by-gone years!
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
