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.

1 She was kneading a lumpen mass of dough.