demotic
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With a voice that is relatively light and raspy and a delivery both nimble and demotic, Mr. Dale matches his energy to the text in a way that makes for effortless listening.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
Beside the "beautifully and accurately carved" sphinx, archaeologists also found a Roman-era stone slab with demotic and hieroglyphic inscriptions.
From BBC • Mar. 6, 2023
A series of interconnected short narratives about a group of friends, “Trainspotting” is inventive, scurrilous, gloriously demotic and entirely itself.
From New York Times • Dec. 21, 2022
He would waffle in demotic English and then answer a charge with a quotation from Seneca.
From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2022
The table on next page shows them in their more correct position, in order to display more clearly their relation to the hieratic and demotic equivalents.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various
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