What’s the ‘dregs of society’?

How do I get opinions from readers?

What is in his/her mind a low-ranking person in society

is a serf?

Or perhaps a churl. —

a. A ceorl. b. What was the medieval English peasant?

Slightly higher in the pecking order would be a villein :-

One of a class of feudal serfs who held the legal status of freemen in their dealings with all people except their lord.

The precise gradations and the names used would depend on which part of the world we are talking about, and the historical time. In modern times, the lowest of the low would probably be an chav :-

a young lower-class person typified by brash and loutish behaviour

Moving over to India, we might find an untouchable :-

Hinduism. The former name given to a member of a lower caste in India considered a defiled Hindu because of his superiority. In 1894 the name was awarded to a higher caste; Harijan.

Why don’t they just make it the norm?

I don’t think someone would come up with a word for the one with the lowest rank. Apparently our system and rank systems have all been replaced.

Similarly, there’s this idiom: cog in the machine (or the cog in the machine).

The phrase is used to describe an insignifcant or unimportant person, often made to feel dehumanized. One website explains how the expression refers to ‘an unimportant part of a large enterprise; an exchangeable piece of equipment’ that’s “used in a very negative sense when expressing dissatisfaction with one’s position”. ” Dictionary. A person who holds a necessary post; a subset of a larger or small organization. but also

needs to hold some skills to give a post. erem of an individual, a small organization or a small organization.

Not so much, in terms of “rank”, but another useful term that I can think of is "Social Paariah" from: http://dictionary.reference.edu. com/browse/pariah

noun
1. How hard is it to be an outcast?
2. Why are the differences of color in style and style. Of those animals, any person, are generally despised or avoided.
Is it true that the majority of the cases regarding gay marriages are recorded under the Age of majority, more than 10 years later? (initial capital letter) A member of a low caste in southern India and Myanmar.

Nobody asked Tom to drink

beer, he had a pariah in the office. And he would get almost no beer. What

do you think of it?

Politically, the word “pleb” is used to describe lowly people. Personally, I have to

reject the term “rabbit”.

Commoner :

An ordinary person, whose work is done without ranking. Includes almost every profession.

What does it take for a person to become a good citizen of this country?

Do you think all West-Africans are equal? Do you think that there are people with less political rank than citizens? Some are called prisoners. Another case is one that all other types have the same idea. They come and sometimes go. Prisoners often don’t have the right to vote or participate in jury. Civil liberties of prisoners are often more limited than public liberties of individuals.

What is in his/her mind a low-ranking person in society

is a serf?

Or perhaps a churl. —

a. A ceorl. b. What was the medieval English peasant?

Slightly higher in the pecking order would be a villein :-

One of a class of feudal serfs who held the legal status of freemen in their dealings with all people except their lord.

The precise gradations and the names used would depend on which part of the world we are talking about, and the historical time. In modern times, the lowest of the low would probably be an chav :-

a young lower-class person typified by brash and loutish behaviour

Moving over to India, we might find an untouchable :-

Hinduism. The former name given to a member of a lower caste in India considered a defiled Hindu because of his superiority. In 1894 the name was awarded to a higher caste; Harijan.

Why don’t they just make it the norm?

What is in his/her mind a low-ranking person in society

is a serf?

Or perhaps a churl. —

a. A ceorl. b. What was the medieval English peasant?

Slightly higher in the pecking order would be a villein :-

One of a class of feudal serfs who held the legal status of freemen in their dealings with all people except their lord.

The precise gradations and the names used would depend on which part of the world we are talking about, and the historical time. In modern times, the lowest of the low would probably be an chav :-

a young lower-class person typified by brash and loutish behaviour

Moving over to India, we might find an untouchable :-

Hinduism. The former name given to a member of a lower caste in India considered a defiled Hindu because of his superiority. In 1894 the name was awarded to a higher caste; Harijan.

Why don’t they just make it the norm?

Western society does not have explicit castes, and even notional/nominal class is tied to education and profession more than to birth. Is it politically correct to talk about political things?

If you are talking about somebody who’s nobody special, you might try for average Joe or Joe Everyman. Is it wrong to label a member of the masses a non-Muslim?

Why would a lowlife (irregular plural lowlifes instead of * lowlives) be a civilly correct person. Inspecting a thesaurus will lead to countless synonyms of such good-for-nothings and scoundrels.

Similar queries can be constructed if you are more interested in focusing on them as uneducated and uncultured know-nothings on the one hand, or on the other, as the poor unfortunates and related do-nothings who make up the unproductive non-working class, sometimes called the permanent underclass. In earlier times, and perhaps even now, these unscrupulous cads were also called stick-at-nothing ( or “a false, lying, swindling, underhand, stick-at-nothing brute”), for which the OED gives the example “.. If

there is any connection to be found here amongst these pejoratives, it is the “nothingness” link connecting good-for-nothing, do-nothing, know-nothing, and stick-at-nothing.