Meaning of lumpen in English

A year later, the lumpen military overthrew the government and established a brutal dictatorship.

In our discussion so far, we have been concerned to impose some sort of analytic structure on the lumpen mass of context.

On both occasions it was the unimaginative and politically ambitious members in the party's youth wing who organised lumpen youth (thugs) to do the dirty work.

He must not say things like that, because a lot of lumpen workers say that, too.

None of us is lumpen enough to deride the entire thing.

A hundred years of know-how in transport will be destroyed in one lumpen fell swoop.

Members of the public are already beginning to be satiated with lumpen films.

I know that these sentiments will not be easily accepted either by the weekly wage earners or by the professions—such as the new lumpen bourgeoisie of the doctors.

We see the same attitude reflected in the media which treat business with lofty and unconcealed disdain as a sort of lumpen proleteriat of our society.

They have the lumpen diet.

They are the lumpen bourgeoisie.

A lumpen, hideous, vaguely feminine figure, whose womb produces spiders.

All the war veterans, former com.party people, the ever-thriving lumpen-proletarias gathered on the revolutionary stations.

Since 1950, there has been a massive output, in all genres, depicting the plight of the lumpen proletariat.

They took political action and proclaimed a ' revolution ' which reflected the true character of their lumpen base.

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