0 used to describe people who are not clever or well educated, and who are not interested in changing or improving their situation: --
the lumpen proletariat (= unskilled working people)
All the war veterans, former com.party people, the ever-thriving lumpen-proletarias gathered on the revolutionary stations.
A lumpen, hideous, vaguely feminine figure, whose womb produces spiders.
They are the lumpen bourgeoisie.
They have the lumpen diet.
We see the same attitude reflected in the media which treat business with lofty and unconcealed disdain as a sort of lumpen proleteriat of our society.
I know that these sentiments will not be easily accepted either by the weekly wage earners or by the professions—such as the new lumpen bourgeoisie of the doctors.
Members of the public are already beginning to be satiated with lumpen films.
A hundred years of know-how in transport will be destroyed in one lumpen fell swoop.
