ragtag-and-bobtail
41riffraff — Synonyms and related words: bilge, bilgewater, canaille, carrion, cattle, chaff, clamjamfry, debris, dishwater, ditchwater, dregs, dregs of society, dust, garbage, junk, kelter, litter, lumber, masses, mob, offal, offscourings, offscum,… …
42scum — Synonyms and related words: aerate, alluvion, alluvium, androcyte, antheridium, antherozoid, apply to, ash, beat, bilge, bilgewater, blanket, block, bones, breakers, canaille, canopy, carrion, cattle, chaff, cinder, clinker, cloak, clothe, cloud …
43unwashed — Synonyms and related words: base, baseborn, canaille, contaminated, corrupted, dirty, dregs, humble, impure, infected, low, lowborn, lowly, masses, mean, mob, nonkosher, plebeian, polluted, proletariat, ragtag and bobtail, riffraff, ritually… …
44scum — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. froth, foam; slag, dross; mother (in fermentation); riff raff. See uncleanness, populace, layer. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. froth, film, impurities; see residue , trash 1 , 3 . III (Roget s 3… …
45dreg — (Roget s Thesaurus II) 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… …
46lumpenproletariat — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun A group of persons regarded as the lowest class: dreg (often used in plural), rabble, ragtag and bobtail, riffraff, trash. Slang: scum. Idioms: scum of the earth, tag and rag, the great unwashed. See OVER, RICH …
47beggar — n 1. cadger, Inf. panhandler, mendicant, beadsman, almsman, Scot. gaberlunzie; moocher, Inf. sponger, Sl. schnorrer, parasite, leech, hanger on. 2. pauper, ragamuffin, tatterdemalion, hobo, Sl. bindle stiff; tramp, vagrant, beachcomber, vagabond …
48populace — n 1. general public, commonalty, common people, common folk, commoners, the people, hoi polloi; the masses, the multitude, the Four Million, the great unwashed, the great unnumbered; lower classes, proletariat, .the working class, salt of the… …
49proletariat — n laboring class, working class, commonalty, the common people, commoners, lower classes, humbler classes, rank and file, Latin, hoc genus omne; plebians, third estate, bourgeoisie; grass roots, Inf. the silent majority, the men in the street,… …
50scum — n 1. film, covering, sheet, layer; spume, foam, froth. 2. dregs, lees, settlings, deposit; offscourings, remains, leftovers; remainder, residue, residuum; scoria, dross, recrement, slag; refuse, waste, garbage, discarded matter. 3. rabble,… …
