hoi polloi
Example Sentences
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Launched in 2006, Twitter created a space where the well-known could circumvent traditional media and communicate directly with fans to push messages or products while, in turn, increasing the site’s popularity among the hoi polloi.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 21, 2022
Hardly anyone got a pay raise in 2020 as the pandemic savaged the economy—except those in the Executive Class—while in 2021 modest pay raises for the hoi polloi were widespread.
From Salon • Nov. 3, 2022
No pestilence had been ever so fatal, or so hideous,” begins Poe’s 1842 tale about a prince who parties with revelers safely locked away in his posh castle while the hoi polloi outside perish.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2022
His belief in his own morality also means that, unlike Axe, he has to worry about what hoi polloi think.
From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2022
Presumably they were used to dazzle hoi polloi.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
