peasant
noun
a member of a class of persons, as in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, who are small farmers or farm laborers of low social rank.
peasantlike
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a word derived from
peasant.
Example Sentences
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A parade of slow-moving, sheaf-waving dancers, moreover, suspiciously resembles the static, peasantlike figures in Robbins' own Watermill.
From Time Magazine Archive
He has recovered from the tumor described in Cancer Ward, but retains an almost peasantlike distrust of modern medicine.
From Time Magazine Archive
Flattened by wave after wave of inflation and devaluation, many French men have developed a peasantlike distrust of stocks, bonds or paper money?and an earthy passion for material goods.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even so, the writing sometimes fails it: before the story gathers momentum, it often seems more cute than droll, more hack-professional than peasantlike.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her skin was lightly tanned, and she looked strong, but not at all peasantlike.
From A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay
