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downtrodden

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[ US /ˌdaʊnˈtɹɑdən/ ]
[ UK /dˈa‍ʊntɹɒdən/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. abused or oppressed by people in power

How To Use downtrodden In A Sentence

  • So in offering prayers for downtrodden races, I would advise you not to overlook the downtrodden tourist.
  • The story goes that downtrodden Sophie works in a hat shop and one day meets the glamorous wizard Howl, a charming ladykiller who has garnered the reputation of eating girls' hearts, despite looking more like a ladyboy.
  • Stop playing the poor downtrodden man and begin a campaign of civil disobedience. Times, Sunday Times
  • Those most vulnerable, the homeless, the underprivileged, and the downtrodden, will have to sweat in the heat as they wait for the postperson to bring them their inadequate social assistance. The Last Snowflake
  • Is he a pseudo-Marxist as his largely secret talk in San Francisco indicated … where he berated average people in Appalachia who didn't vote for him for "clinging" to religion in their poverty-paraphrasing religion the opium of the people dictum where Marx lachrymosely wails in behalf of the downtrodden who substitute God for material gains, a direct parallel? THE IRATE NATION
  • The owner is making huge profits at the expense of downtrodden peasants.
  • He said his black clothing symbolized the world's downtrodden people.
  • Do you think the downtrodden and the disadvantaged got rights just by asking the wealthy and powerful really nicely?
  • It was a downtrodden nation during centuries of foreign occupation.
  • So in offering prayers for downtrodden races, I would advise you not to overlook the downtrodden tourist.
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