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downtrodden

/doun-trod-n/US // ˈdaʊnˌtrɒd n //UK // (ˈdaʊnˌtrɒdən) //

颓废的,落魄的,落魄,颓废

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : tyrannized over; oppressed: the downtrodden plebeians of ancient Rome.
    • : trampled upon.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.afflicted, abused

Examples

  • Despite Frese having just three seasons of experience as a head coach, Yow saw her as an overachiever who quickly turns around downtrodden programs.

  • The media sometimes depicts Republican voters as the poor and downtrodden — as the people that globalization left behind in opioid-ravaged Rust Belt towns — but that’s not exactly true.

  • The other has become a symbol of hope for a downtrodden, underserved, and at risk community, begging for justice and equity.

  • The main lesson he took from that disaster was how brutally those in power can crush the downtrodden who dare to question the nature of things.

  • Many high-profile investors made the pilgrimage to a swampy, downtrodden suburb of Miami, where they became convinced Abovitz was building a kind of Apple for computers strapped to people’s faces.

  • But it was good news to the poor, the diseased, the downtrodden and scorned, and all the “little” people.

  • The Boulevard Carnot, the seedy, downtrodden street that leads out of town, proved the point on my last night there.

  • But Alig is far from the unshaven and downtrodden man profiled in New York Magazine in 2007.

  • Responding to all them—especially the ones from “downtrodden” teens in the middle of the country—made him feel good.

  • He sympathized with the Irish downtrodden, African slaves, and American colonists of the late 1700s.

  • When one has been downtrodden one's whole life, one becomes accustomed to it, and besides she loved the down-treader.

  • From ind to ind of the land, the downtrodden serfs of Ireland are rising in their millions.

  • Just as oppressive and as bitter as the weeping that issues from the downtrodden has been before, it will eternally be.

  • And thus, by always striving to be something higher, the downtrodden grass plant became a Man.

  • Thinks too much about the poor and the downtrodden to be very cheerful company; but somebody ought to look after 'em, I suppose.