Adjective a kind of music that has traditionally appealed to the lumpen segment of the musical audience

Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective

It’s made of diabase traprock, which contains iron that causes the cliffs to look lumpen and rusty in the wrong light, precise and resplendent in the right one. Christian Wiman, Harper's magazine, "The Cancer Chair," 20 Jan. 2020

In lieu of feet, the piece has a tail, an assemblage of lumpen clay, perhaps an allusion to the demonization of the destitute and the displaced. Andrea K. Scott, The New Yorker, "Huma Bhabha’s Postapocalyptic Tableau," 18 May 2018

But there are far more ordinary, lumpen Russians driving Ubers and working as nannies — or going to universities or writing software — than there are billionaire oligarchs who own English soccer teams. Karla Adam, Washington Post, "From posh oligarchs to taxis drivers, Russians in London feel a chill," 20 Apr. 2018

With fewer migrant workers, firms might be forced to train lumpen locals and invest more in technology, thus improving Britain’s poor productivity. The Economist, "How will British firms replace departing European workers?," 13 Jan. 2018

Moreover, the deep meaning of the generational divide in Christian America is that the electorate, mercifully, is more dynamic than the lumpen logic of tribal politics suggests. The Economist, "The evangelical divide," 12 Oct. 2017

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