CANAILLE Synonyms: 21 Similar and Opposite Words

canaille

noun

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as in proletarian

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Later in the novel, Hans’s mind turns to the brutality of occupation: If in the course of a five-day plan, 200,000 Berliners were removed by 50,000, these 50,000 proletarians would be fused into a collective by the shock of having killed.

Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 21 June 2023
As a proudly class-conscious proletarian, Martin is naturally supportive of worker strikes.

J. Hoberman, The New York Review of Books, 22 Oct. 2020

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