ragtag and bobtail

noun

Definition of ragtag and bobtailnext
as in tagrag and bobtail
people looked down upon as ignorant and of the lowest class locals complained that rental housing would attract the ragtag and bobtail to their well-groomed suburb

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  1. public
  2. populace
  3. people
  4. proletariat
  5. rabble
Noun
  • By now Francis' annual Christmas address to the priests, bishops and cardinals who work in the Vatican Curia has become a lesson in humility — and humiliation — as Francis offers a public dressing down of some of the sins in the workplace at the headquarters of the Catholic Church.
    CBS News, CBS News, 21 Dec. 2024
  • Other spikes in reports of suspicious bags or items happen in the wake of a major incident, such as the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, when authorities were inundated by reports from the newly vigilant public.
    Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of public
Noun
  • Being entombed alive is an apt metaphor for a populace that had its civic freedoms squashed by the Assad dynasty for half a century.
    Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Trump’s White House sent $1,200 checks to the populace in 2020, all of which featured Trump’s signature.
    Tim Collins, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of populace
Noun
  • The four people charged in connection with the fire were indicted Friday.
    Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Tsao argues people sticking together will prove to be a critical factor in keeping as many of them protected as possible.
    Glenn Minnis | The Center Square contributor, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 22 Dec. 2024
Definition of people
Noun
  • Inspired by Karl Marx, the Bolsheviks dreamed of a world communist revolution and held special expectations for Germany, Marx’s homeland, and for its proletariat.
    Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 19 June 2023
  • The first scenario does much more to reduce poverty, demonstrating the importance of permanently expanding access to unemployment insurance to workers with nontraditional jobs—part-timers, freelancers, and other members of the gig economy’s swelling proletariat.
    Matthew Desmond, The New York Review of Books, 28 Dec. 2023
Definition of proletariat
Noun
  • Advertisement From start to finish, pure madness, amid a rabble that never calmed, never quieted, never quit.
    Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2024
  • All this anti-Soviet scum, all this rabble revolves around Sakharov.
    Gal Beckerman, Foreign Affairs, 10 May 2012
Definition of rabble
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