demotic

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With a voice that is relatively light and raspy and a delivery both nimble and demotic, Mr. Dale matches his energy to the text in a way that makes for effortless listening.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

Beside the "beautifully and accurately carved" sphinx, archaeologists also found a Roman-era stone slab with demotic and hieroglyphic inscriptions.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2023

A series of interconnected short narratives about a group of friends, “Trainspotting” is inventive, scurrilous, gloriously demotic and entirely itself.

From New York Times • Dec. 21, 2022

He would waffle in demotic English and then answer a charge with a quotation from Seneca.

From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2022

From this account it will appear that the Coptic, as a language, cannot differ materially from the demotic.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose