as in low
belonging to the class of people of low social or economic rank
a TV producer who knew what the unwashed masses wanted—and unhesitatingly gave it to them
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as in masses
people looked down upon as ignorant and of the lowest class
Aunt Edna was fond of snootily reminding us that we need not take our manners from the great unwashed
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Recent Examples of unwashed
Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 10 Jan. 2024
Some of the rooms Coster investigates in Season 1 are truly horrifying, categorized by unwashed clothes and sheets and mysterious liquids.
—Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 21 Nov. 2024
The dark blue unwashed hue can be dressed up or down, and most closely resembles this designer denim skirt by Magda Butrym.
—Kelsey Glennon, Travel + Leisure, 6 Nov. 2024
This is especially true of kitchen towels, which can be cross-contaminated due to contact with raw meat or unwashed produce.
—Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Oct. 2024
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Families have described the investigations as traumatizing, leading the agency under the most recent commissioner to try limiting the number of unnecessary probes — which turned out to have often been prompted by indicators of poverty like child hunger or unwashed clothes.
—Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 10 Jan. 2024
Some of the rooms Coster investigates in Season 1 are truly horrifying, categorized by unwashed clothes and sheets and mysterious liquids.
—Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 21 Nov. 2024
The dark blue unwashed hue can be dressed up or down, and most closely resembles this designer denim skirt by Magda Butrym.
—Kelsey Glennon, Travel + Leisure, 6 Nov. 2024
This is especially true of kitchen towels, which can be cross-contaminated due to contact with raw meat or unwashed produce.
—Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unwashed
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New York City and Philadelphia were expected to hit the mid-50s Sunday and low 60s by Wednesday.Susan Miller, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2024
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Alabama’s ceiling looked higher, but its floor looked lower.Chris Vannini, The Athletic, 9 Dec. 2024
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Yet Empire Falls translates into a lumpen, stodgy miniseries, despite a fine central performance from Harris as a divorced diner owner with deep roots in the town and a structure that allows the past to keep informing and enriching the present.Scott Tobias, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2024
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Rhys spent decades, often isolated and paranoid, in lumpen houses and apartments in and out of London, before success arrived late.New York Times, New York Times, 20 June 2022
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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
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All this anti-Soviet scum, all this rabble revolves around Sakharov.Gal Beckerman, Foreign Affairs, 10 May 2012
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Chapter 1: The Rise of Scribe Media Scribe Media started in 2014 as the humbler, niche-sounding Book in a Box.Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024
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Just a few steps up the hill is a humble boulangerie that punches far above its weight; Le Fornil de Mon Père has been making bread and pastries in the area for eight decades.Michael Venutolo-Mantovani, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Dec. 2024
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Bozzo leveled criticisms at the current city government, arguing for more collaboration between officials and the populace.Luis Melecio-Zambrano, The Mercury News, 28 Nov. 2024
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The public can’t handle the truth Recent political shows have settled into a mode that suggests the proletariat is, well, dumb — think of how The Regime depicts the populace of its unnamed country cheering for Kate Winslet’s mustard-fetishizing autocrat.Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
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Once upon a time, a doddering old man spoke of a dream about a united city in this empire’s capital, where every man, woman, and child could walk its streets and live a good life regardless of their patrician or plebeian birthright.David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 Nov. 2024
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Skeptics might shrug their shoulders at this plebeian fare.Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
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Investigators hail crucial role of public in finding person of interest Tisch, the police commissioner, said the tip from the McDonald's employee in Thompson's slaying is the third recent case in which the public has helped police.Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
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More than fifteen million people—sixty-five per cent of the French viewing public—watched as Macron appeared onscreen, perched on a balcony with the plane trees of the palace gardens behind him, filtering the day’s last light.Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2024
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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
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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
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“Unwashed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unwashed. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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