as in low
belonging to the class of people of low social or economic rank
a TV producer who knew what the unwashed masses wanted—and unhesitatingly gave it to them
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as in masses
people looked down upon as ignorant and of the lowest class
Aunt Edna was fond of snootily reminding us that we need not take our manners from the great unwashed
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Recent Examples of unwashed
Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2025
In the world's least developed countries, every two seconds a baby is born into unwashed hands due to a lack of water.
—Kelly Parsons, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
High-risk foods include undercooked pork or beef, raw freshwater fish, and unwashed vegetables and fruits.
—Faye Chiu, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2025
Carefully section your dry, unwashed hair with clips to help with the application process.
—Essence, 22 July 2025
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Adjective
Use them immediately, or freeze them unwashed in a resealable plastic bag to use later.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2025
In the world's least developed countries, every two seconds a baby is born into unwashed hands due to a lack of water.
—Kelly Parsons, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
High-risk foods include undercooked pork or beef, raw freshwater fish, and unwashed vegetables and fruits.
—Faye Chiu, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2025
Carefully section your dry, unwashed hair with clips to help with the application process.
—Essence, 22 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unwashed
Adjective
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The organization’s Green Heart Project, which studies the impact of better air quality on heart disease through urban greening, has found that increasing the number of trees and shrubs in an area can create lower levels of a blood marker associated with inflammation.—
Maggie Menderski,
Louisville Courier Journal,
26 Oct. 2025
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Here is Carreras profiting from that exact ploy while playing for Benfica against Barcelona in the Champions League last season, sneaking forward on the far side before receiving the switch and hammering a low cross into striker Vangelis Pavlidis to score.—
Anantaajith Raghuraman,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Yet Empire Falls translates into a lumpen, stodgy miniseries, despite a fine central performance from Harris as a divorced diner owner with deep roots in the town and a structure that allows the past to keep informing and enriching the present.—
Scott Tobias,
Vulture,
14 Apr. 2024
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Rhys spent decades, often isolated and paranoid, in lumpen houses and apartments in and out of London, before success arrived late.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
20 June 2022
Noun
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Hundreds of companies are a disorganized rabble.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Oct. 2025
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Steve heads up a reform school for volatile, cursing and rabble-rousing English boys, and his mental health is tested when a documentary crew shows up and word gets out the school is closing.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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From humble beginnings of small-scale personal gardens, the company has since evolved to managing large-scale estates.—
Nia Bowers,
USA Today,
28 Oct. 2025
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In The Furious, when his daughter Rainy is abducted, humble tradesman Wang Wei is thrust into a deadly underworld of corruption and violence.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
28 Oct. 2025
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On the other hand, changing priorities for the American populace may prompt policy changes to address rising demand for certain medical specialties.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
20 Oct. 2025
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That’s where the actual populace is.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
13 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Below that sits the pedestrian CLK 500 and plebeian CLK 350.—
Jeremy Korzeniewski,
Robb Report,
26 Feb. 2025
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Across the lake, on the plebeian side, up the shoreline a mile or so, in the heart of downtown West Palm Beach, stand twin 32-story towers dubbed Trump Plaza of the Palm Beaches.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
8 Jan. 2025
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The pair took their relationship public in September 2024, a year-and-a-half after Boss’ death.—
Liza Esquibias,
PEOPLE,
24 Oct. 2025
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Proxy advisory firms have long held sway over Wall Street, but their recommendations are even more prominent today, when almost two thirds of the American public has a stake in the stock market .—
Alex Harring,
CNBC,
24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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These ranged from the aristocratic elite who dominated the military and bureaucracy and yearned for a return to monarchy, to communists who sought proletarian rule, to the National Socialists who wanted to establish a right-wing dictatorship.—
Time,
Time,
23 Oct. 2025
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This new proletarian culture was personified in the ideal of the New Soviet Man.—
Sonja Fritzsche,
The Conversation,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Unwashed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unwashed. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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