The word "coolie" today is often considered disrespectful, evoking memories of a time of exploitation.
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Coolie
/ˈkuːli/
Synonyms for "coolie" (47 found)
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Noun(5 words)
manual laborermigrant workerpejorative epithetracial slurunskilled worker
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8 total sentences available.
One day when the Man's Wife and the Tertium Quid had just arrived in the Cemetery, they saw some coolies breaking ground.
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From Hui-li-chou northwards I was escorted by real soldiers, quite of the new service. They looked rather shipshape in khaki suits and puttees, and their guns were of a good model, but they handled them in careless fashion at first, belabouring laden ponies and even coolies who were slow in getting out of the way of my chair.
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Outside, beyond the sun-baked station yard, a rice mill chugged away in the distance, and sweating coolies unloaded bags of rice from creaking bullock carts.
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