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
Meantime Walpole, through his scholarly friend the poet Gray, had come to doubt the antiquity of Rowley's verse; and the plebeianism of this correspondent has shocked his gentility.
From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Donald G. Mitchell
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
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
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
