low-born
Example Sentences
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The four band members were low-born Northerners from a dingy port town with no formal education; their success was against the natural order of things, an act of effrontery.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2023
In November, Michael Boyd will direct “Tamburlaine,” Marlowe’s story of a low-born conqueror, with John Douglas Thompson in the title role.
From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2014
Cromwell, as a low-born person with no title and no fortune holding a position — secretary to the King — that comes with no formal salary, must manage everything by means of manipulation.
From Time • May 16, 2012
In Peter Carey's "Parrot and Olivier in America," the time is the early 19th century, the young aristocratic Olivier resembles Alexis de Tocqueville, and the low-born, middle-aged Parrot is Olivier's British secretary.
From Salon • Apr. 18, 2011
But when is a vulgar-minded, low-born woman happy who is consumed in the ratio of pampering by ambition and greed and caprice?
From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Wingfield, Lewis
