downtrodden
Speech parts
1. downtrodden - Adjective
2. downtrodden - Verb
3. downtrodden - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Trodden down; trampled down; abused by superior power.
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The most important thing about marriage is that the man must not let the woman feel downtrodden simply because she is a woman and he is a man.
Hundreds of thousands and millions of wage slaves of capital and peasants downtrodden by the serf-owners are going to the slaughter for the dynastic interests of a handful of crowned brigands, for the profits of the bourgeoisie in its drive to plunder foreign lands.
I will be satisfied if my epitaph shall be written thus: "Here lies one who never rose to any eminence, who only courted the low ambition to have it said that he striven to ameliorate the condition of the poor, the lowly, the downtrodden of every race and language and color."
The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.
God's Heart is especially tender toward the downtrodden and the defeated. He knows your name and He has seen every tear you have shed.
She gave the lie to the European superstition - chiefly a missionary superstition - that the women of the East are downtrodden.