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Word of the Day – Lumpenintelligentsia

By April 3, 2022Word of the Day

Lumpenintelligentsia (noun)

lum-pen-in-tel-i-jen-tsee-a

(derogatory British) as lacking taste, culture, etc. Also more generally: the intelligentsia collectively, regarded as worthless or powerless.

1930s. From lumpen- + intelligentsia.

Example sentences

“We just knew them as the lumpenintelligentsia.”

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