lowborn
Example Sentences
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As Thomas Cromwell, More’s prosecutorial nemesis, Todd Cerveris has thuggishness enough but not the bristling intelligence that elevated the lowborn Cromwell to power.
From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2019
There are several checkerboard tunics of the kind worn by Atahualpa, the Inca king, at his first meeting with Francisco Pizarro, the lowborn Spanish conquistador.
From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2018
Jon — along with nearly everyone else in Westeros — believes he is the illegitimate son of Ned Stark and a lowborn woman.
From Time • Aug. 16, 2017
That’s true of Don, but it doesn’t preclude Dick Whitman, the lowborn child of a prostitute, from enduring his own bouts of blood and consumption when not under the guise of Don Draper.
From The New Yorker • May 16, 2015
The lance was a knight's weapon, Sansa knew, the Slynts lowborn.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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