common sort

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“I do think that the board and the mayor have a common sort of goal of ... trying to solve some of these problems that the electorate seems to still be quite upset about.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2025

Now that's all threatened because of scandals of the common sort in the Philippines�election cheating, graft�and Arroyo's handling of them.

From Time Magazine Archive

Still, Harrison took more kindly to the common sort than Shakspere did in his plays.—F.

From Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison by Harrison, William

I am the most usual, common sort of woman, who must have someone in love with her and be in love.

From The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas

Between this man of cultivated mind, polished manners, and companionable qualities, and Don Pablo, whose exterior smacked but little of intercourse with "the world," there was evidently a bond of no common sort.

From Mathieu Ropars: et cetera by Young, William