hoi polloi
Example Sentences
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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
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
Now Palm Springs is known as a picture-postcard fantasy for hoi polloi like you and me, sipping cucumber-infused water poolside while humming bars of “The Girl from Ipanema.”
From Seattle Times • Jan. 14, 2022
Tommy is good — if that’s even the right word — at stirring up hoi polloi.
From Washington Post • Oct. 13, 2021
Presumably they were used to dazzle hoi polloi.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
