lumpen in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for lumpen in the English»French Dictionary

lumpen [Brit ˈlʌmpən, Am ˈləmpən] ADJ dated, pej

lumpen

demeuré pej

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

A lumpen, hideous, vaguely feminine figure, whose womb produces spiders.

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I'm afraid this looks like the purest lumpen gibberish to me!

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Since 1950, there has been a massive output, in all genres, depicting the plight of the lumpen proletariat.

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On the other hand, the petit-bourgeois moralistic politicians and public commentators had no obvious way to get messages through to the lumpen-proletariat.

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Strikes are the handiwork of lumpen elements.

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For a party that had quite the lumpen reputation, that cultural seal of approval was very important.

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Lumpen offerings in the online world are a form of ambient noise rather than argument, but they serve an important rhetorical function.

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The dictatorships that followed lost this legitimacy as soon as they accepted subjection to the globalized neoliberal model and accompanying lumpen development.

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There are still very dedicated members who believe in their ideology but now there are lumpen elements who have taken over the label.

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After being injected with a cocktail of toxins she allegedly left with lumpen shapes in her cheeks, a misshapen chin and a ballooning upper lip.

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