Adjective wondered what the people at the country club would think of his plebeian origins
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Noun
In practice, the plebeians (the general citizenry) had fewer voting rights than the aristocratic patricians.National Geographic, 4 Nov. 2019 The second-class plebeians worked the farms, baked the bread and built the walls. Bret Stetka, Scientific American, 11 Oct. 2019 But unlike us plebeians, the model got to come back as an adult and put her own stamp on the iconic toy store, which is reopening at 30 Rockefeller Center on November 16. Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 25 Oct. 2018 Snob is an 18th-century term for a cobbler's apprentice and, by extension, for plebeians in general, like me. P.j. O'rourke, Town & Country, 15 Sep. 2016 Celebrities surprising unsuspecting plebeians is practically a cottage industry at this point.New York Times, 11 May 2018 Running dreams, for runners and plebeians nonrunners alike, are totally common and take myriad forms with boundless interpretations. Grace Perry, Outside Online, 10 Apr. 2018 That is because the Roman Forum began as a market and became the place where patricians would meet plebeians and press the flesh. Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 26 Mar. 2018 Which is, 99 percent of us plebeians need to pick a new hobby. Elise Taylor, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2017
Adjective
Wide fenders, a menacing front fascia, and GR Corolla–specific wheels are only the tip of the iceberg that separates Toyota's hottest hatch from its more plebeian Corolla sibling. Greg Fink, Car and Driver, 1 Apr. 2022 The Lexus ES is the brand's entry-level luxury sedan and shares a mechanical relationship with the more plebeian Toyota Camry. Ryan Zummallen, Star Tribune, 2 June 2021 But there are precious few supercars anymore that aren't force-fed air by multiple turbos, and all-wheel drive has become just as ubiquitous in more plebeian autos. Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 17 Mar. 2020 The reported output figures of at least 400 horsepower and 361 lb-ft of torque for the STI are new, though, and surprising, given that this engine makes 260 horsepower and 277 lb-ft of torque in its more plebeian applications. Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 27 Feb. 2020 That's right — getting a hole in one for Simpson is like yawning for plebeian humans. Katherine Fitzgerald, azcentral, 1 Feb. 2020 Behind the film lie the Panama Papers—the millions of files, leaked in 2016, that demonstrated how the wealthy stash their moola offshore and thereby avoid the plebeian vulgarity of tax. Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2019 Once a month, he and Trudy - a registered nurse - volunteer their time at a free medical clinic in Arlington, Virginia, treating the uninsured for problems as plebeian as hemorrhoids.oregonlive, 5 Oct. 2019 Which is to say: The intellectual became a plebeian in part because the patricians abandoned their duty. Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 11 July 2019 See More
Word History
Etymology
Noun
Latin plebeius of the common people, from plebs common people