(a.) Of or pertaining to the Roman plebs, or common people.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the common people; vulgar; common; as, plebeian sports; a plebeian throng.
(n.) One of the plebs, or common people of ancient Rome, in distinction from patrician.
(n.) One of the common people, or lower rank of men.
Example Sentences:
(1) The whole phenomenon could be summed up in the familiar phrase, coined by the Romans used to describe their strategy for placating the plebeians – "bread and circuses".
(2) Just as Demirtaş is the current darling of the western ambassadors, so Erdoğan was a decade ago; the ambassadors took it upon themselves to smooth his plebeian edges and refine his worldview.
(3) In his last Russian novel, The Gift , he devoted 50 pages to belittling and mocking the writer and his circle, but admitted that there “was quite definitively a smack of class arrogance about the attitudes of contemporary well-born writers towards the plebeian Chernyshevsky” and, in private, that “Tolstoy and Turgenev called him the ‘bed-bug stinking gentleman’ … and jeered at him in all kinds of ways”.
(4) Again in Port Harcourt, I saw a convoy with sirens blaring driving down the wrong side of the road to avoid waiting like the rest of us normal, plebeian people.
(5) Perhaps he made his exit via the constituency’s Durham Tees Valley airport, barked through security with his shoes and belt in a grey plastic tray, the fate to which his foreign policy adventures have condemned us plebeian travellers.
(6) In other ways, Wonga is just a soft target, put in the stocks for angry plebeians to throw rotten fruit at.
(7) So it has been with the distinctions of slaves and freemen, nobles and serfs, patricians and plebeians; and so it will be, and in part already is, with the aristocracies of colour, race, and sex."
Proletarian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the proletaries; belonging to the commonalty; hence, mean; vile; vulgar.
(n.) A proletary.
Example Sentences:
(1) Proletarianization (McKinlay and colleagues) and restratification theory (Freidson) are two prominent and competing predictions for the future of the medical profession.
(2) No one could tell us what proletarian architectural design was – and you were too afraid to ask."
(3) It gave the policy an aspirational flavour: reassuringly suburban rather than proletarian and urban.
(4) In recent years a substantial literature has emerged on the alleged deprofessionalization and proletarianization of physicians.
(5) And now the bank founded as the very embodiment of proletarian self-help and a different model of business ends up being run by hedge funds.
(6) In the room with me were Young, Elliot Roberts, the guy from Seattle (later replaced by the guy from Albuquerque, Crowe and Art, Young's proletarian dog).
(7) The very thought, I suspect, would have him quaking in his proletarian boots – and free airline socks.
(8) You could also detect its beginnings in some of the supposed social comment associated with Britpop - not least the snide songs about forlorn proletarian lives that were briefly the calling card of Blur's Damon Albarn, who affected a mewling "Essex" accent, but was in fact raised in one of that county's more upscale corners.
(9) He was startled to be rounded on in his early adulthood by the proletarian poet Jesse Tor, who denounced him as "irredeemably bourgeois".
(10) This development is viewed in the light of the orienting concepts of professionalization, proletarianization, and medical dominance (and gender analysis).
(11) The politicization of health services in Israel came about owing to the low placement of health on the social agenda, the proletarianization of physicians, and the hierarchical administrative culture.
(12) This showdown between Solidarity’s charismatic, proletarian leader and his urbane former adviser symbolised the breakdown of the alliances within Polish society that had made Solidarity possible.
(13) In a letter from 1870 that, with a few words changed, could have been written any time in the past few years, Karl Marx vividly described this dynamic: “Every industrial and commercial centre in England possesses a working class divided into two hostile camps, English proletarians and Irish proletarians.
(14) In their article, McKinlay and Arches have provided us with a very interesting and perceptive analysis of how it has become possible to proletarianize physicians.
(15) Although she was never untruthful about her own past, it was rather less proletarian than she would have liked for a party suspicious of middle class intellectuals.
(16) Like the red sun rising in the east, the unprecedented Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution is illuminating the land with its brilliant rays,” one editorial read.
(17) How a profession maintains its status is reflected in the ways a dominant paradigm (professional dominance) responds to challenges from alternative concepts (deprofessionalization, proletarianization).
(18) Apparently, he struggled to sound quite as proletarian as required, though he was said to be "making hand gestures and swaggering from side to side as he walked across the parade square".
(19) There is a cluster of upper-middle signifiers all in a row: “Greenbelt, nimby, green wellies, Aga, Cotswolds, M4, Eton”, and another clump of something a bit more proletarian: “boozer, red top, Blighty, allotments, Blackpool”.
(20) Looking for intersexual differences in size and lineal and craniofacial proportionality, assumed to be secondary to genetic induction, non-distorted by environmental factors, we studied 200 newborns from families who were residents in proletarian zones, parents with very similar education and employment (qualified workers).