forgotten man

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noun

a person no longer in the mind of the general public.

U.S. Politics. the average wage earner, regarded as economically deprived and forgotten or ignored by the federal government during the Great Depression.

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Origin of forgotten man

First recorded in 1920–25

Words nearby forgotten man

for God's sake, for good, for good measure, forgot, forgotten, forgotten man, for heaven's sake, for-instance, forint, forjudge, fork

How to use forgotten man in a sentence

In the first episode, an officer is shown video of himself shooting and killing a man.
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That man was Xavier Cortada, a gay man who wrote of his frustration that he and his partner of eight years were unable to marry.
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It is the summit of human happiness: the surrender of man to God, of woman to man, of several women to the same man.
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But no more so than the Sodexo building maintenance man or the two cops who were also killed in the crossfire.
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He looks like a man who should have had kids, but now never will.
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Davy looked around and saw an old man coming toward them across the lawn.
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The supernaturalist alleges that religion was revealed to man by God, and that the form of this revelation is a sacred book.
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The most High hath created medicines out of the earth, and a wise man will not abhor them.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
He remembered something—the cherished pose of being a man plunged fathoms-deep in business.
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On the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house.
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