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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He has recovered from the tumor described in Cancer Ward, but retains an almost peasantlike distrust of modern medicine.
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 thick-brogued, almost blatantly peasantlike Joan was all drive and no dreaminess.
From Time Magazine Archive
A parade of slow-moving, sheaf-waving dancers, moreover, suspiciously resembles the static, peasantlike figures in Robbins' own Watermill.
From Time Magazine Archive
His figure was undersized, his visage brown, hard, and peasantlike, his gesture was a gesticulation, and his voice was alternately feeble and shrill.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 by Various
