hoi polloi
Example Sentences
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His belief in his own morality also means that, unlike Axe, he has to worry about what hoi polloi think.
From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2022
Now Palm Springs is known as a picture-postcard fantasy for hoi polloi like you and me, sipping cucumber-infused water poolside while humming bars of “The Girl from Ipanema.”
From Seattle Times • Jan. 14, 2022
Tommy is good — if that’s even the right word — at stirring up hoi polloi.
From Washington Post • Oct. 13, 2021
Soon after independence was won, the founding fathers began conspiring against their fellow revolutionists among the hoi polloi.
From Salon • Oct. 17, 2020
Presumably they were used to dazzle hoi polloi.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
