Plebeian
in example sentence
In Hitler’s Germany, this hope existed among all classes, whether elite or
plebeian
.
More example sentences with word plebeian
The Hospital was a first-rate financial failure, but I'm certain the elite classes of left-wing, gutter-mouthed intellectuals railed that the American public was far- too
plebeian
to appreciate biting social-commentary when they saw it, and on and on.
There is no
plebeian
element here except a few peers and a Julien or two perhaps.
'You and I, at that dinner, will be the only two whose hands are free from blood, but I shall be despised and almost hated, as a bloody and Jacobinical monster, and you will simply be despised as a
plebeian
who has thrust his way into good society.'
'Has not Israel Bertuccio more character than all those Venetian nobles?' our rebellious
plebeian
asked himself; 'and yet they are men whose noble descent can be proved as far back as the year 700, a century before Charlemagne; whereas the bluest blood at M. de Retz's ball tonight does not go farther back, and that only by a hop, skip and jump, than the thirteenth century.
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