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
But it’s quintessentially Darkside, full of bruising, demotic grooves and vaporous delicacy.
From Washington Post • Jul. 22, 2021
Beside the remains of the picture symbols, the demotic writing employs seventeen simple phonetic symbols and some fifty symbols of syllables.
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Duncker, Max
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
