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
Many crime writers, notably Elmore Leonard, have found ways of updating the hard-boiled genre while retaining its vim and demotic panache.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2020
This collection of linked stories, set on an unnamed Aegean island and featuring a cast of wry, rough-talking Greeks reeling from the country’s economic devastation, showcases Ikonomou’s wit, compassion and infallible ear for the demotic.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2019
The characters in demotic are derived from the hieratic, but appear in a simpler form, and phonetics largely prevail over ideographs.
From Cleopatra's Needle A History of the London Obelisk, with an Exposition of the Hieroglyphics by James King
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