proles
- plural of prole.
Example Sentences
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This level of self-regard in a writer and thinker as justifiably exalted as Smith may explain why our nation is turning on reading: aristocracies breed resentment among the proles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2025
In the Roman Empire, the games at the Circus Maximus were an amusement and a distraction, a token to the proles as a substitute for being able to exercise any political power.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2025
At that time he is merely the chairman of the Long Island State Park Commission, and his antagonists are not yet sympathetic proles but out-of-touch gentry.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2022
They were cast as stock soap characters, comedy proles, about whom the likes of Annie Walker, Elsie Tanner and Rita Fairclough would be insufferably snooty.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 14, 2016
The proles were nearly always right when they gave you a warning of this kind.
From "1984" by George Orwell
