plebeian
adjective
belonging or pertaining to the common people.
plebeianism
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a word derived from
plebeian.
Example Sentences
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But thrift and hard work, the great enemies of professional plebeianism, got even Old McDonald in the end.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Grace pictured to herself the aristocratic pride of an hidalgo shocked by the suggestion of the plebeianism of trade; and she would not consent to the revelation.
From The Golden Fleece, a romance by Julian Hawthorne
The proper course, according to the practice of travelling nobodies, desirous of intruding their plebeianism into a foreign court, would have been to apply to their ambassadors.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various
The Conqueror never escaped the reproach of his birth, into which bastardy and plebeianism entered in equal proportions.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 by Various
Others there are who, passable in appearance when clad in their ordinary garments, reach the very acme of plebeianism when they clothe themselves in the unaccommodating evening-dress.
From Vendetta: a story of one forgotten by Marie Corelli
