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Another word for rabble

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Noun

  1. A group of persons regarded as the lowest class

    Idioms:
    See also:

    rich

    over

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Another word for rabble

Noun
  1. See also:

    people

    crowd

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Sentence Examples

  • These grains the puddler welds together by means of his rabble FIG.

  • "This rabble must be chased with whips, not smitten with swords," they cried.

  • The rebellion was the more dangerous as the town rabble was on the side of the peasants, and in Buda and other places the cavalry sent against the Kuruczok were unhorsed as they passed through the gates.

  • By this time Dozsa was losing control of the rabble, which had fallen under the influence of the socialist parson of Czegled, Lorincz Meszaros.

  • they who were looked upon as servants to the king being then called ` Cavaliers,' and the other of the rabble contemned and despised under the name of ` Roundheads.'" Baxter ascribes the origin of the term to a remark made by Queen Henrietta Maria at the trial of Strafford; referring to Pym, she asked who the roundheaded man was.

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