With his identity stolen, he became an unperson, unable to prove his existence to the government.
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Unperson
Synonyms for "unperson" (3 found)
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Translations
9 translations across 6 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 非人 noun (human stripped of rights)
Esperanto
1 entries- malpersono noun (human stripped of rights)
Finnish
1 entries- epähenkilö noun (human stripped of rights)
Hungarian
3 entries- jogaitól megfosztott személy noun (human stripped of rights)
- nem létezőnek tekintett személy noun (human stripped of rights)
- nemszemély noun (human stripped of rights)
Korean
1 entries- 사람이 아닌 noun (human stripped of rights)
Portuguese
2 entries- despessoa noun (human stripped of rights)
- impessoa noun (human stripped of rights)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
In accordance with the change in the party line, Stalin vanished from the play, disappearing even before Mr. Krushchev's denunciation at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party. Stalin became an “unperson,” in the terminology of George Orwell's “1984”.
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Though Gao is classed as an unperson in China, which did not react officially yesterday, the award was forecast to cause widespread private joy there as the literary equivalent of the country winning the World Cup.
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Unhappily, shortcomings here on the part of even a few schools provide a handle for the type of irresponsible generalization that recently labeled the lay professor on the Catholic campus "unwanted, unpaid, uncared for and unpersoned."
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