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downtrodden
[ doun-trod-n ]
downtrodden
/ ˈdaʊnˌtrɒdən /
adjective
- subjugated; oppressed
- trodden down; trampled
Other Words From
- downtrodden·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of downtrodden1
Example Sentences
Despite Frese having just three seasons of experience as a head coach, Yow saw her as an overachiever who quickly turns around downtrodden programs.
The media sometimes depicts Republican voters as the poor and downtrodden — as the people that globalization left behind in opioid-ravaged Rust Belt towns — but that’s not exactly true.
The other has become a symbol of hope for a downtrodden, underserved, and at risk community, begging for justice and equity.
The main lesson he took from that disaster was how brutally those in power can crush the downtrodden who dare to question the nature of things.
Many high-profile investors made the pilgrimage to a swampy, downtrodden suburb of Miami, where they became convinced Abovitz was building a kind of Apple for computers strapped to people’s faces.
But it was good news to the poor, the diseased, the downtrodden and scorned, and all the “little” people.
The Boulevard Carnot, the seedy, downtrodden street that leads out of town, proved the point on my last night there.
But Alig is far from the unshaven and downtrodden man profiled in New York Magazine in 2007.
Responding to all them—especially the ones from “downtrodden” teens in the middle of the country—made him feel good.
He sympathized with the Irish downtrodden, African slaves, and American colonists of the late 1700s.
When one has been downtrodden one's whole life, one becomes accustomed to it, and besides she loved the down-treader.
From ind to ind of the land, the downtrodden serfs of Ireland are rising in their millions.
Just as oppressive and as bitter as the weeping that issues from the downtrodden has been before, it will eternally be.
And thus, by always striving to be something higher, the downtrodden grass plant became a Man.
Thinks too much about the poor and the downtrodden to be very cheerful company; but somebody ought to look after 'em, I suppose.
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