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

It has roots in both scholarly tea parties and plebeian street-side “tiger stoves” that sold hot water for brewing tea at home and then started setting up stools so customers could linger.

From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2021

There were the paeans from plebeian basketball fans and politicians alike, almost as if public genuflection to a sports idol were American dogma.

From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 2020

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