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View synonyms for great unwashed

great unwashed

or Great Unwashed

noun

  1. the general public; the populace or masses.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of great unwashed1

First recorded in 1855–60
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Example Sentences

She is touring what she calls “this great unwashed middle of the country” in an effort to divine the mood of the midterms.

She could not go back into the Cathedral; it was musty in itself and crowded with the Great Unwashed.

Very well, we'll try it on the 'Great unwashed;' if there happens to be a bit of fire left.

Think of the horrors that encompass all the 'great unwashed,' and then perhaps you will feel as I do.

At last, in 1833, an actual collision took place between them and the great unwashed in Coldbath Fields.

He shirked the element itself, however, as religiously as though he had been one of London's great unwashed.

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