All the excitement of her rabble rousing had been suitably extinguished, along with our enthusiasm for this show.
Earlier in the book, Murray waxed indignant about the "condescension toward the rabble" he detected in the new upper class.
The culture of the new upper class carries with it an unmistakable whiff of a 'we're better than the rabble' mentality.
Could the West rely on the more or less faceless Libyan opposition, a rabble in arms, to be so pliable?
I was trapped backstage with a rabble of photographers behind a security fence as the models filed out.
She lifted one hand in a gesture of command, and called out to the rabble.
Behind these stood a rabble of some thirty others at six sous apiece.
It is the day of the Dantons, and the Marats, the day of the rabble.
A person of breeding choosing the cause of the rout and rabble!
And are these people—this rabble that you talk of—received as my papa's guests?
c.1300, "pack of animals," possibly related to Middle English rablen "to gabble, speak in a rapid, confused manner," probably imitative of hurry, noise, and confusion (cf. Middle Dutch rabbelen, Low German rabbeln "to chatter"). Meaning "tumultuous crowd of vulgar, noisy people" is from late 14c.; applied contemptuously to the common or low part of any populace from 1550s.
iron bar for stirring molten metal, 1864, from French râble, from Old French roable, from Latin rutabulum "rake, fire shovel," from ruere to rake up (perhaps cognate with Lithuanian raju "to pluck out," German roden "to root out").
