Translation for 'dregs of society' from English to French

dregs (of society)

bas-fonds {m.pl} [de société]sociol.

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of society [postpos.]

sociétal {adj}

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privileged member of society

privilégié {m}sociol.

cream of European society

fine fleur {f} de l'Europe

rules of polite society

règles {f.pl} de la bienséance

Royal Society of ... [Br.]

Royal Society of ... {noun}sci.

position of teachers in society

condition {f} enseignanteéduc.occup.sociol.

privileged member of society [female]

privilégiée {f}sociol.

scum of society [coll.] [pej.]

écume {f} de la société

The Division of Labour in Society

De la division du travail social [Émile Durkheim (1893)]littérat.sociol.

to live on the fringes of society

vivre en marge de la sociétésociol.

to be on the fringes (of society)

être marginalsociol.

to put oneself on the fringes of society

se marginaliser

dregs {pl} [leftovers, remains, sediment] [also fig.]

lie {f} [aussi fig.]

society

société {f}

society woman

mondaine {f}

temperance society

société {f} de tempérance

historical society

société {f} historiquehist.

society column

rubrique {f} mondainejourn.

high society

gratin {m} [fam.] [fig.] [élite]

society [association]

association {f}

• They justify taking advantage of these kinds of criminals because they are considered the dregs of society.
• The Gwylliaid were supposedly the dregs of society, who came to the Dinas Mawddwy area having been excommunicated from their own areas.
• In Scavvie gangs, the very dregs of society scrape out an existence robbing guilder caravans, raiding isolated settlements, and just generally scavenging whatever they can to survive.
• His subjects include writers and painters (Federico García Lorca, Hart Crane, Walt Whitman); people who stepped outside the moral code (Oscar Wilde); political radicals (Rosa Luxemburg); people forced into violent situations against their will; and, eventually, the dregs of society.