as in low
belonging to the class of people of low social or economic rank
the writer's prole origins are evident in his gritty novels about life in the inner city
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Recent Examples of prole
Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
In Jodie Foster’s satire-cum-thriller, George Clooney plays a Jim Cramer-ish TV finance guru whose bullish promotion of one stock has led desperate prole Jack O’Connell to lose his life savings, leading to a hostage standoff in the TV studio.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for prole
Adjective
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The president argued that inflation was already low enough to start cutting rates.—
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There’s something motivating about having this low, electronic drumbeat pushing you along, trying to go faster and faster and faster.—
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On the one hand, the proletarian contributes every bit of on-the-clock activity to the value of the resulting commodity.—
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The song, now considered a protest anthem, is about a social revolution in which French proletarians stand against the ruling class — in this case, an oppressive monarchy.—
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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.—
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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.—
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In October, King Charles stripped his younger brother Prince Andrew of all royal titles and privileges, leaving him a commoner known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.—
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The 1947 Imperial House Law only allows male-line succession and forces female royals who marry commoners to lose their royal status.—
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Below that sits the pedestrian CLK 500 and plebeian CLK 350.—
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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.—
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Instead of following his gut like some unenlightened pleb, Patrick trusts his spleen and his spleen alone.—
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But because these monsters have yet to develop any fungal armor, runners are susceptible to gunshots, knives, and any other weaponry that would take out your average pleb.—
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Singer Island has a humble personality, with more reverence for its natural beauty and less regard for glamorous perfection than its southern neighbor.—
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This humble ingredient is a powerhouse in all kinds of cooking.—
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This low-life is lying in my jail, getting three meals a day, whining and crying.—
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Their father, my grandfather, was a career low-life criminal and was in jail all the time for forgery and conning people.—
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“Prole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prole. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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