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Everyman
noun as in everyone
noun as in John Doe
noun as in lowest common denominator
Weak matches
noun as in man in the street
Weak matches
noun as in ragtag and bobtail
noun as in third estate
noun as in Tom, Dick, and Harry
Example Sentences
Detectives quickly realised that behind the everyman image, Andrews Jr was the mastermind of a multi-million pound drug empire selling cocaine and heroin on an industrial scale.
“The tale of ‘Everyman’ was one in which a universal protagonist met with all of the challenges of life and a reckoning with himself and with God,” Hull says.
It’s a work of pageantry, inspired in part by Hull’s fascination with medieval morality plays, specifically the story of “Everyman,” an examination of self and of our relationship to a higher power.
Bargatze’s everyman persona may wear thin as his fame continues to grow — with $82.2 million in gross earnings, he topped Billboard’s 2024 ranking of comedy tours by a wide margin — but at this moment, he could bring a refreshing fish-out-of-water view to the Emmys.
“Those were all defining things that would immediately take him from being an everyman to being a specific man.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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