Crossword clues for downtrodden
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Downtrod \Down"trod`\, Downtrodden \Down"trod`den\, a.
Trodden down; trampled down; abused by superior power.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
1 (context figuratively English) oppressed, persecuted or subjugated. 2 trodden down. v
(past participle of downtrod English)
Usage examples of "downtrodden".
Congress had determined to free the downtrodden inhabitants of the Cubapine Islands from the tyranny of the ancient Castalian monarchy.
Coleman, a deeply moral and religious man, was responsible for the heroic stands taken by the downtrodden miners of five major outworlds, including.
On a long underground journey to one of the banlieues, the downtrodden areas that ringed Paris proper, the two conversed in low voices, making plans like lovebirds, or fugitives.
Think of it, a downtrodden indigent from a disenfranchised people-in rags and maybe holding my stomach from hunger.
The usual banquet fare: fruit salad, consomme, protosoy fillet, steam-table peas and carrots, flagons of California Burgundy, lumpy baked Alaska, everything served with maximum clatter and minimum grace by stony-faced members of downtrodden minority groups.
Mihal disdained ivory towers, but he was an idealist nonetheless, and his job was to bring comfort to God's downtrodden children.
Kleptocracies with little public support run the risk of being overthrown, either by downtrodden commoners or by upstart would-be replacement kleptocrats seeking public support by promising a higher ratio of services rendered to fruits stolen.
He is one with all of the brutalized, despised, downtrodden, misunderstood, cheated, outcast, manipulated people who live upon the silver screen and who are heroic in the face of devastating tribulations.
I was, by now, an accepted, even popular, member of the Rainbow Room crew, a dues-paying, card-carrying union member, and as a young, semi-educated firebrand with a couple of years of college under my belt, a fine private school vocabulary, a culinary degree and a predilection for left-wing politics, I assumed I'd be a welcome addition to the restaurant workers' union-a young man with the workers' interests at heart, a fighter for the downtrodden, an activist who could get things done, someone who could lead and inspire, help to achieve better working conditions and benefits for one of the largest union shops in the country.