Example Sentences

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He could not find his other slipper, and he stubbed his toe plebeianly against an aristocratic table.

From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert

As to the boy, it is a downright puppy and fool, or, to speak less plebeianly, is a non composite mentus.

From Olla Podrida by Marryat, Frederick

Once give her way, and she would treat me with disrespect, and cheat you in the bargain; or, less plebeianly, nefariously depropriate—— Adm.

From Olla Podrida by Marryat, Frederick

It is true, however, that Camoens breathed his last in dire distress and isolation, and was buried "poorly and plebeianly" in the neighboring convent of Santa Ana.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various

A clever young man of the working class, dressed in garments of the kind his class dressed in on Sunday, and plebeianly carrying a bundle under his arm.

From The Conflict by Phillips, David Graham