downtrodden

How To Use downtrodden In A Sentence

• It must have displayed the compassion you carry for the downtrodden and the victims.
• Only the most optimistic would believe it at the first time of hearing; the more downtrodden cynics took longer to convince.
• The downtrodden majority stay downtrodden because there are no opportunities for them to exploit.
• Regardless of his contentious stances on such issues as abortion, contraception, homosexuality, and divorce, she argued, the fact that he had succeeded in fashioning himself, against formidable odds, into a powerful opponent of communism and a defender of the downtrodden everywhere was to be commended. Saint John Paul?
• Western-style democracy, rationalism, objectivity, and the autonomy of the individual are slogans designed to convince the downtrodden that subordination is justice ... Life Upon the Wicked Stage—Freedom of Artistic Expression
• I must have looked desperate and downtrodden because she agreed to be party to the duplicity.
• Camby's tenacious play kept the downtrodden Clippers (8-24) in the game and helped Los Angeles outrebound the Suns 29-18 by halftime. USATODAY.com
• It was a downtrodden nation during centuries of foreign occupation.
• On the other, the victim gays seek to deny the power of the pink pound and prefer to present gays as poor and downtrodden.
• Israel figured his father just liked to come off as downtrodden and henpecked.