plebeian
adjective
belonging or pertaining to the common people.
plebeianly
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a word derived from
plebeian.
Example Sentences
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No wonder a Don of such appetites found Even Windsor's collations plebeianly plain; Where the dishes most high that my Lady sends round Are here Maintenon cutlets and soup à la Reine.
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti
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
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 Frederick Marryat
Meanwhile Edgerley the first prospered, though rather plebeianly.
From For the Major A Novelette by Constance Fenimore Woolson
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 Frederick Marryat
