| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. Matter that settles on a bottom or collects on a surface by a natural process. Often used in plural: deposit, lees, precipitate, precipitation, sediment. See LEFTOVER. 2. A group of persons regarded as the lowest class. Often used in plural: lumpenproletariat, rabble, ragtag and bobtail, riffraff, trash. Slang : scum. Idioms: scum of the earth, tag and rag, the great unwashed. See OVER, RICH.
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