Sentence example with the word 'downtrodden'

downtrodden

abject, beat, burdened, ground down, maltreated, oppressed, overcome, plagued, slavish, trampled, unmanned

Definition adj. abused or oppressed by people in power

Last update: September 11, 2015


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The downtrodden people in our country are still suffering.   [Please select]

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13) extols his fame for rebuilding the desolate city of Jerusalem and for raising up fresh homes for the downtrodden people.   [Please select]

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"That's what all you downtrodden slaves of militarism would like to find out," replied Gedge.   [Please select]

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"America--these United States, a bulwark against tyranny, an asylum for the aspiring and the downtrodden."   [Please select]

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"I can recall tales my father told of the downtrodden people of his native land."   [Please select]

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There are three courses open to those downtrodden members of the nation.   [Please select]

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Lorimer, the despised, the downtrodden, was as an angel from heaven that day.   [Please select]

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"Only this: his sympathies have always been interested in behalf of his downtrodden countrymen."   [Please select]

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I won't admit that they _are_ downtrodden, Josie, even to you; but Cragg thinks they are.   [Please select]

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The poor, ignorant, downtrodden peasantry, urged by the selfish trading classes who used them for their own ends, united in a great movement to take away the privileges of the nobles.   [Please select]

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downtrod - downtrodden - downward