How To Use lumpen In A Sentence
- I've long contended that scrapbooking is the lumpenproletariat reaction to the media trend of excavating celebrities 'personal lives. Scrapbooking = creepy
- The bloody woman can't tell the lumpenproletariat from the skilled working class.
- They are roughly textured lumpen masses, yet they're instantly recognizable, which makes for a palpable tension.
- Why, one might ask, are the matrons of this little village procuring the potions of a black-clad spinster to poison their lumpen, ruddy old husbands?
- They will never even dare raise the question of thuggery with us, as we work with the lumpenproletariat closely; in fact they are somewhat concerned for their own well-being.
- Squat and lumpen, its form betrays its origins as clay shaped by hand.
- For years now, the potato has had a bad press, so much so that the phrase "couch potato" is now synonymous with lumpen slobs who never get off the sofa. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
- They seem to recede into his head, which is shaved and lumpen and looks like it was built for beating on.
- Mistry or Patsy Kensit, who may have dropped two dress sizes but still looked lumpen during her "chavvy" cha-cha-cha. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
- The causes are something a historian can study and document: the colonial period where long-standing social orders were overturned to serve colonial interests, and not-so-deep-seated animosities between the two main ethnic groups were exacerbated; the hatred of Tutsis that Hutu regimes inculcated even deeper into peasants for years so that most of these poor people at one point actually began to believe Tutsis were devil-like beings with tails and that killing them was their duty; teaming masses of impoverished urban Hutus (of the kind a Marxist would call the lumpen proletariat) murdering their Tutsi neighbors so they would cart off their property and rape their women (just like peasants murdering their neighbor to take his piece of land), and so endlessly on. AllAfrica News: Latest
