the downtrodden
noun
: people who are without hope because of being treated badly by powerful people, governments, etc.
He showed compassion for the downtrodden.
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This would absolutely be a home run hire for the downtrodden Raiders.
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Vincent Frank, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
After covering his difficult adolescence in the downtrodden industrial town of Stoke-on-Trent, Better Man turns to Williams’s early years in the music industry.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2025
But the ascent of Mr. Boko, a charismatic orator with a flair for promising to defend the downtrodden, reveals the cracks in Botswana’s miracle rags-to-riches story.
—Keletso Thobega, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2025
Historians of Haiti typically ascribe such massacres to uprisings of the downtrodden poor against exploitative elites.
—Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
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Vincent Frank, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
After covering his difficult adolescence in the downtrodden industrial town of Stoke-on-Trent, Better Man turns to Williams’s early years in the music industry.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2025
But the ascent of Mr. Boko, a charismatic orator with a flair for promising to defend the downtrodden, reveals the cracks in Botswana’s miracle rags-to-riches story.
—Keletso Thobega, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2025
Historians of Haiti typically ascribe such massacres to uprisings of the downtrodden poor against exploitative elites.
—Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
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“The downtrodden.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20downtrodden. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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