How To Use Lumpen In A Sentence
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I've long contended that scrapbooking is the lumpenproletariat reaction to the media trend of excavating celebrities 'personal lives.
Scrapbooking = creepy
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The bloody woman can't tell the lumpenproletariat from the skilled working class.
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They are roughly textured lumpen masses, yet they're instantly recognizable, which makes for a palpable tension.
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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?
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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.
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Squat and lumpen, its form betrays its origins as clay shaped by hand.
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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
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They seem to recede into his head, which is shaved and lumpen and looks like it was built for beating on.
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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
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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
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Unintended silliness creeps steadily in, finally swamping us in a lumpenly melodramatic climax.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her plotting is maddeningly episodic, her dialogue lumpen, her characters cursorily drawn.
Times, Sunday Times
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That weasel phrase 'hard-working people' - you mean the lumpenproletariat, the rabble, don't you?
Times, Sunday Times
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TSMD is a retelling of Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo, its protagonist one Gully Foyle, lumpenprole untermensch turned revenging angel in a world utterly transformed by the discovery that teleportation is a natural and teachable human talent.
The stars of modern SF pick the best science fiction
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And that's just your average lumpen British builder.
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If Britain is broken, it's broken at the edges, the areas inhabited by what the left used to call the lumpen proletariat.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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For some workers and lumpenproletariat, it is a revolt against greedy capitalists.
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We are not obliged to share the superficial view that lumpen social layers possess an inherently revolutionary character.
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Such a lumpen could be the administrator of an establishment where, if the regulations say that a bottle of rum should contain 30 shots -- this is just an example, just to give an example; it is always good to accompany a thought with an example
6TH NATL ANAP CONGRESS
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Trotsky writes that Nietzsche's philosophy has a particular appeal to what he describes as a parasitic proletariat, a social layer arising within capitalism which is more privileged than the mere lumpenproletariat.
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Inverse snobbery in some underclass households is quintessentially charver and I suspect the Sociofascists love this, as it breeds a new, larger ever-dependent lumpen mass who will vote for them.
Fiona Millar on 'Segregational Selection'
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At long last the lumpen England fan has woken from a deep historic stupor and realised that Scotland is off, and is never coming back.
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This omission is a pity for two reasons: Anderson has for years lived and taught in the United States, and does not exhibit the snobbish yet lumpen contempt for American society that is so often found on the European Left; and it would certainly be fascinating to see his full attention engaged on the irony that the United States is simultaneously the most conservative and the most radicalizing force on the planet.
What’s Left?
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When the rural peasants began to form a sizable lumpenproletariat in the city they were sent back home - the slum clearances in Algiers 1984.
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A later unscrupulous Pope decided to conflate the sundry Biblical Marys into the single persona of Mary Magdalene to avoid confusing the lumpen faithful of the times.
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This is remarkable, since this was the time of the lumpenproletariat, that great urban mass of unskilled labourers who comprised about 40 per cent of the population of the new industrial cities.
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Die Zeit der plumpen Individualisierung ist vorbei: Die Postbank nutzt individuelle Werbung. alles was bis 1400 beim Digitaldrucker ist ist am nächsten tag beim Empfänger der Werbung.
Oliver Gassner: Digitale Tage
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The word Hun is not remotely religious in it connetation, but refers to Rangers supporter, and the lumpen end of them in particular
The World's Best Dieting Aid
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Besides that, their songs are unremarkable, hookless and slop along with lumpen arrangements that recall swimming in porridge.
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Our social welfare R50 Billion budget per annum should address the basic needs of people and it should seek to address the problem of poverty, stemming from children, pensioners, people with HIV - AIDS, people with disabilities and the highly unemployable, what we term the lumpen proletariat.
SPEECH BY OUPA MONARENG THE ROLE OF PARLIAMENT IN EXECUTING THE PEOPLES CONTRACT - STATE OF THE NATION DEBATE
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Below me circling somewhere beneath the swell are the lumpen outlines of not one but two 15 ft Great White Sharks.
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It's a better idea for the wealthy to provide a safety net for the lumpenproletariat than to be the first up against the wall when the revolution comes.
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This wallows in the dirt, squalor, drunkenness and mechanical, dehumanised sexuality of those who live on the margins of society, where the artistic petty bourgeois merges with the lumpenproletariat.
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The word Hun is not remotely religious in it connetation, but refers to Rangers supporter, and the lumpen end of them in particular
The World's Best Dieting Aid
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Since the end of the draft the US military has become a haven for confused and alienated individuals, many of whom were on the verge of being pushed into the lumpenproletariat.
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In addition to these social and economic difficulties, El Salvador alsofaces the problem of being "mexicanized," that is, a prolong assaultbya bloodthirsty alliance of the dope-dealing and human smuggling lumpen class with theelements of the localbourgeoisie and withUS imperialists to wreak havoc and carnage on society with the ultimate end of the seizure of state power for a death squadregime similar to theonethat rules Colombia.
El Salvador's new FMLN government will face tough problems exacerbated by the world capitalist collapse
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The climax, a lumpen but enthusiastic dance routine, is pure bliss.
Times, Sunday Times
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The lumpenproletariat has always existed and I suspect that it always will in one form or another.
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Writing at some length at Labour Home about the complexity of the supposed "swing" to the Tories and the need to do the business for fairness I am a little surprised for this to be described as a lumpen core vote strategy and linked with some worthy Wiseman wishes and thepowerlesslowpaid's slogans by one Stephen Farrington of Cardiff.
Archive 2008-05-01
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She was kneading a lumpen mass of dough.
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These lumpen skivvies need to understand who their betters are and dig into their pockets, surely.
Times, Sunday Times
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One of the most pernicious evils of contemporary BritKapital is to have lured the proletariat into limiting their potential to the pursuit of lumpen hedonism.
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The multigeneration denizens of public housing can readily be compared to Karl Marx's lumpenproletariat.
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And that's too bad, because an apathetic teacher sucks all the air out of the room, transforming the sponge-like brains of enthusiastic students into bored and lumpen rocks.
Linda Flanagan: Why Bad Teachers Are Good for Kids
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More significantly, these agents have become crusaders for the issue and while mobilising support among the young, and largely lumpen groups, have spearheaded a hate campaign against the religious minorities.
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Jamie was particularly incensed that his attention was drawn from a beautifully lean and perfectly cooked fillet of beef by lumpen, doughy and oversized foie gras ravioli that needed considerable endurance for him to dispatch.
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In spite of everything, in spite of the fact that we have lumpen, that unfortunately we still have lumpen among us, in spite of the fact that we will have declassed individuals, that we still have antisocial individuals, we are the nationa that has the least number of antisocial individuals and lumpen in the hemisphere.
MAY DAY RALLY
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Others are the kind of lumpen proletariat that autocracies scoop up in a last-ditch effort to survive: convicted violent criminals, poorly educated young unemployed men, and no small number of sadists, sycophants, and psychopaths.
Larry Diamond: Mubarak Must Go
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Its fattening qualities plumpen the tissues and so raise the lines of the face and gradually obliterate them.
The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture
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The elite have the skills to make sure their problems are first on the consultant's list; the lumpenproletariat do not.
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Or, to be more precise, giving the lazy-minded lumpen proles what they want.
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Remember, he's the voice of the lumpenproletariat, the great unwashed, the rough part of Los Angeles (assuming it has any smooth parts).
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The people seemed lumpen and boring.
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Unless, of course, it's talking about buying the services of a lumpen eared crew in a white transit so as you can really boss it about your manor, guv.
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Like all lumpen bureaucracy, it serves the system more than the individual.
Times, Sunday Times
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Of the lumpen masses, 1.5 million died in concentration camps and 1.3 million in the war against the outside world.
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Enter the UglyRipe, a lumpen, misshapen, odd duck of a tomato grown near Naples, Florida.
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The lumpen city mayor, meanwhile, has a plan: bulldoze the former homes of the poor, introduce city-wide internet access and build seven new casinos.
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I used to obsess over mine - not because it was especially big or small or lumpen or anything, but because everyone else could do something with theirs, which I couldn't.
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So even as they mutter racist slogans, members of Siberia's Lumpenproletariat benefit from proximity to the dragon.
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The lumpen scum whose abuse made him flip the finger last Monday night, at the end of the England game, know exactly what Becks is about.
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Usually we can make out no more than a lumpen shape in the gloom.
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Lumpen shapes began to appear out of the shadows.
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Surely, I think, McKellan's Magneto would raise every car, van and lorry from the bridge, shatter it to a powder of steel, and fuse that steel into a new bridge, into something more magnificent in its slender, shining subtlety than that mere lumpen mass of man's construction, ripped from the earth and dumped in its new position.
On the Sublime
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The sight of vintage McAllister haring up the wing, a trail of defenders made to look like lumpen bystanders in his wake, thrilled us all.
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Finally, then, this is a show about how fluid identities become lumpenly concrete in the imaginations of the gullible.
Times, Sunday Times
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The lumpen and guilt-stricken driver, on the other hand, is as made for the task.
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(uncouth), lumpen (thug), yaar (friend) and stepney (spare tyre).
India eNews
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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?
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He's Brad, a lumpen late-30s bird person who resolves to embark on a quest to spot the greatest number of wild birds across North America in a single calendar year - and shatter the record-setting 732 nailed by Kenny, a biggety sort played by Owen Wilson in lots of abhorrent paisley.
SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter
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In addition, the rural population is sometimes seen as a specific class in Marx's historical writings, as is the Lumpenproletariat (“dregs of society”), so that we obtain an image of society, which, far from the usual dichotomic or trichotomic image, is differentiated into several strata with multiple interests.
CLASS
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She was kneading a lumpen mass of dough.
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To plumpen the hands: One-fourth ounce tincture of benzoin, eight ounces of rose-water, and four ounces of refined linseed oil.
The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture
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But even in the face of this lumpen barrier to progress, we still dream.
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The biographical half of his book is hard-going, a trudge through lumpen text that often lacks cohesion.
The Disappearing Maestro
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Granted, the smell isn't rosy, and the work can be tough on your hump - a lumpen mass of gristle, muscle, bone and sinew - but this ensures you don't dawdle on the job.
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His treatment of Marxism is disgraceful, exhibiting little understanding, and he makes the scurrilous charge that Marxists are hostile to indigenous peoples because they are the modern day lumpenproletariat.
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It cannot be any great source of wonder, then, that the lumpen jerks singing away so merrily in praise of genocide and terrorism at Ibrox and Celtic Park might feel the tiniest bit justified.
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History was moving ‘in a certain way’ and the class struggle would continue in the Third World with the lumpenproletariat of the colonized peoples taking up arms against the colonists.
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In some respects, his legend as an eccentric genius of economics only spread because he was the last of the treasurers whose plans were only analysed by the Opposition and the lumpen eco-commentariat of the press.