sweated

[ swet-id ]

adjective

1. made by underpaid workers.
2. underpaid and overworked.
3. having poor working conditions.

sweated

/ ˈswɛtɪd /

adjective

1. made by exploited labour

   sweated goods

2. (of workers, etc) forced to work in poor conditions for low pay

Other Words From

• un·sweated adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of sweated¹

1645–55 for earlier sense “saturated with sweat”; 1880–85 sweated fordef 2; sweat + -ed ²

Example Sentences

But oh, God, those hours while I sweated it out until I saw my mother!

From The Daily Beast

Privately, he had huge inhibitions about hustling, but he fought them down and sweated.

From The Daily Beast

Every time we drove the two hours there, we sweated bullets for fear of being discovered.

From The Daily Beast

While we skulked in the shadows, they had studied and sweated and changed the face of their world.

From The Daily Beast

Manilla tobacco usually burns well, if the leaf is of good quality and well sweated, still it is known as a non-burning tobacco.

From Project Gutenberg

Not like New York, that never expresses an opinion until a sort of consensus has sweated up to the surface.

From Project Gutenberg

If I'd only known all about it, I would have sweated to death on the hottest day of the summer rather than not have obliged him.

From Project Gutenberg

Strife and hard work had sweated all the fat from his bones.

From Project Gutenberg

Bart lay still and sweated, trying to ease his uncomfortable position, unable to move so much as a finger.

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