亚洲网紅露点

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lumpen

[ luhm-puhn ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to disfranchised and uprooted individuals or groups, especially those who have lost status:

    the lumpen bourgeoisie.



noun

  1. a lumpen individual or group.

lumpen

/ 藞濒蕦尘辫蓹苍 /

adjective

  1. informal.
    stupid or unthinking
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of lumpen1

First recorded in 1945鈥50; extracted from lumpenproletariat
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of lumpen1

from German Lump vagabond, influenced in meaning by Lumpen rag, as in lumpenproletariat
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His answer is what he calls 鈥淧recarious Sculpture,鈥 proliferating jumbles of lumpen objects made from common, impermanent stuff, as if refusing to play by the elitist rules of enduring art.

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The store is overrun by a mob of unusually lumpen bargain hunters, and the riot that ensues is a bloody doozy, coming off like an amalgam of George A. Romero and Jean-Luc Godard.

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To get there, we had to follow the Ukrainian soldiers on foot - within a few paces my boots become lumpen and heavy with thick dirt.

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His lumpen goodness turns the hot-tempered fairy tale into a dull after-school special about peer pressure, which seems to suggest that Geppetto should have just carved himself a helicopter to parent the boy.

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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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