Adjective : the lumpen bourgeoisie. From Dictionary.com.
If Britain is broken, it's broken at the edges, the areas inhabited by what the left used to call the lumpen proletariat. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
It is not like here, where they take "lumpen," bourgeois, big landowners, police thugs, all kinds of people. From Wordnik.com. [TEXT OF CASTRO HAVANA UNIVERSITY SPEECH] Reference
Well, the '' lumpen '' chattering classes at the Spectator, the rest of the media and the london establishment, seems to. From Wordnik.com. [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference
Read the article, it argues that capitalism can get beyond the crisis through "lumpen" fiddling with it. From Wordnik.com. [rabble.ca - News for the rest of us] Reference
"lumpen," including the "lumpen" with high incomes, the sons of bourgeois elements who do not study or work. From Wordnik.com. [CASTRO MARKS PALACE ATTACK ANNIVERSARY] Reference
We have people who go astray, lumpen individuals, and we know it. From Wordnik.com. [President Castro Dedicates Cienfuegos School] Reference
She caught a confused glimpse of a lumpen mass on the floor inside. From Wordnik.com. [A Taint in the Blood]
Why do we favor fancy Spiaggia over lumpen but ambitious Olive Garden?. From Wordnik.com. [Tastes of Italy, High and Low] Reference
We should tell the lumpen of Cardenas and all the bourgeois of Cardenas. From Wordnik.com. [CARDENAS LAUNCHING OF 17 FISHING BOATS] Reference
You have to give the people, the American lumpen, what it seems they want. From Wordnik.com. [iPod, Therefore I Am] Reference
Does that strange and predatory animal, the lumpen bourgeoisie, govern us?. From Wordnik.com. [Address at the Opening of the Africa Conference on Elections, Democracy And Governance 7 April 2003] Reference
This comrade said: "We need no more than one day to sweep away the lumpen.". From Wordnik.com. [CARDENAS LAUNCHING OF 17 FISHING BOATS] Reference
All of this encourages, of course, the lumpen who think they have impunity. From Wordnik.com. [Tours Malecon, Comments] Reference
In short, the lumpen electorate works, and the lumpen bureaucratariat spends. From Wordnik.com. [The Revolt of the Masses] Reference
Bureaucracies anywhere are lumpen, but in nondemocracies their sloth can be lethal. From Wordnik.com. [Democracies Don't Let People Die] Reference
Between the thongs his lumpen feet were badly scratched by the straw he spent his days in. From Wordnik.com. [Two For The Lions]
Hoffman uses the swimming scenes to offer moments of grace to his otherwise lumpen character. From Wordnik.com. [Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Jack Goes Boating] Reference
The actions of this 'lumpen bourgeoisie' led to the coup d'etat led by Idi Amin in January 1971. From Wordnik.com. [Address at the Opening of the Africa Conference on Elections, Democracy And Governance 7 April 2003] Reference
They know they're hated and they chalk it up to jealous resentment from the lumpen-loser-ariate. From Wordnik.com. [Les Leopold: Enslaved by Our 401ks?] Reference
The lumpen find suitable means for making profit and living from all vices, exploiting the rest. From Wordnik.com. [TEXT OF CASTRO HAVANA UNIVERSITY SPEECH] Reference
Billy and Dandy had draped a tarp over the body but the shape itself looked lumpen and grotesque. From Wordnik.com. [A Grave Denied]
We were unarmed soldiers, and even then, armed only with our ideas, we defeated all those lumpen. From Wordnik.com. [Holds News Conference] Reference
Problem is, the lumpen bureaucratariat can't stop spending and borrowing and won't incentivize growth. From Wordnik.com. [The Revolt of the Masses] Reference
I began with quenelles de brochet, which were the size of billiard balls and rather lumpen in appearance. From Wordnik.com. [In a City of 'Hot' and 'New,' La Grenouille Dishes Up History] Reference
If that is the case, then why shouldn't this lumpen segment of the electorate be politically represented?. From Wordnik.com. [Deborah Hobson: Bring On The BNP - Out Of The Shadows] Reference
The ever-entertaining Karl Marx described a society's least politically engaged people as the lumpen proletariat. From Wordnik.com. [The Revolt of the Masses] Reference
It wasn't enough that I had clomped around in lumpen Earth shoes before anyone else, choosing comfort over fashion. From Wordnik.com. [Jennifer Loviglio: It's My Fault Men Have More Sex Partners] Reference
They hang around like the lumpen on the corners, in bars, in the movies; and they take liberties and act licentiously. From Wordnik.com. [CASTRO MARKS PALACE ATTACK ANNIVERSARY] Reference
(Applause) To imprison all the lumpen and to confiscate all the bourgeois, (as heard) the revolution needs but one day. From Wordnik.com. [CARDENAS LAUNCHING OF 17 FISHING BOATS] Reference
By his standards, list-making bespoke a lumpen craving for identity-by-association and an appalling lack of originality. From Wordnik.com. [Time Snubs Humpty-Dumpty, Chooses Amazon's Jeff Bezos] Reference
This latter was the best option: The intern and assistant positions were left wide open to us lumpen losers from nowhere. From Wordnik.com. [Dancing With Children of the Stars: Celeb Spawn Swarm My Social Orbit] Reference
Opposite him Hattie Harman was her usual lumpen self, slow and predictable, full of stumbles, repetitions and false starts. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
They'd flee the spires of Cambridge for the nether regions of Revere, Mass., to join the lumpen proletariat at Wonderland dog track. From Wordnik.com. [A Writer's Long Shot Comes In] Reference
The heavy close-packed shelves seemed to press upon him, compelling his eyes again and again to that lumpen figure on its paper bier. From Wordnik.com. [A Mind to Murder]
By that time I had a N.Y.P.D. press pass, so I was right up front but still part of the lumpen proletariat gathered to watch Madonna. From Wordnik.com. [Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?] Reference
Well, it's beginning to look as if the globe's lumpen proletariat has decided they've had about enough of the lumpen bureaucratariat. From Wordnik.com. [The Revolt of the Masses] Reference
Among German Socialists it is called the "lumpen proletariat," and both for the present and future is looked at with the greatest anxiety. From Wordnik.com. [Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement] Reference
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