1 She was kneading a lumpen mass of dough.
2 The people seemed lumpen and boring.
3 Her body felt lumpen and awkward.
4 Lumpen shapes began to appear out of the shadows.
5 The individuality and richness of their lives - given a glance of a chance - mocked such lumpen labels.
6 These were the days when rock was being shooed out in disgrace, a lumpen confusion of scratched armpits and muddled motives.
7 Both families had been transformed from what might be called a lumpen peasantry into what Marx did call the lumpen proletariat.
8 The phenomenon represented a sudden coalescence of intellectual or sensitive people with the lumpen elements.
9 In its social origins putschism is a combination of lumpen proletarian and petty - bourgeois ideology.