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n. (context idiomatic English) A contemptuous term for the populace, particularly the working class.
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- redirect Hoi polloi
Usage examples of "great unwashed".
The great unwashed, Gil thought, and straightened her cricked back against hours of standing and the accumulated weight of the sleeping child in her arms.
Zaranda's fine nose wrinkled to a whiff of dirty hair and stale sweat as two young male humans came into the shop, shabbily dressed in black and gray, with hair hanging in their eyes in great unwashed clots.
One day the President's term of office will be over and you'll only be another one of the great unwashed public again.
Give this place back to the great unwashed and just watch them kill the golden goose, he said.
With steely resolve, a pro, in the face of adversity, will suck it up and redouble his efforts to make the restaurant what he wanted and planned it to be all along-hoping that the great unwashed will eventually discover it, trust it, learn to love it.
Wendell Green - ace reporter, fearless investigator, explicator of good and evil to the great unwashed - sits in his former place, holding the crumpled foolscap in one hand and the batteries in the other.
The hardest thing any artist can attempt is to reconcile his own moral standards with those of the great unwashed.
What happened was that four of the country's great unwashed and thoroughly unlovable came up on us in the dark and did us some grievous harm.