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[ adjective ] wrongfully subjugated and oppressed
Synonyms Used in print (The New York Times,...)It was neither a spirit of self-sacrifice nor a yen to encourage the downtrodden that motivated Arnold . (Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)The last two writers introduce strong political bias into their works , and not unlike the union leaders that we will discuss soon , see folklore as a reservoir of protest by a downtrodden and publically silenced mass . Related terms |
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