plebeian

Example Sentences

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All the enlightened reformers in Europe were desperately trying to eliminate the peasant peculiarities and plebeian dialects that divided the peoples of their nations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

But the filmmakers have given him an all-access pass, from plebeian alleyways to marbled halls of power, and he is forever walking in unannounced on people who could literally have his head.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2024

The pangrams from yesterday’s Spelling Bee were biplane and plebeian.

From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2023

What Brady loves most, far more than a Tag Heuer, is the plebeian surroundings of a locker room, the simple no-frills atmosphere with a brotherhood in egalitarian sweats.

From Washington Post • Jan. 15, 2022

And no one need fear that the numbers are being cooked either, since they appear in the prestigious Wall Street Journal, as well as in more plebeian papers.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos