lowborn

Example Sentences

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As Thomas Cromwell, More’s prosecutorial nemesis, Todd Cerveris has thuggishness enough but not the bristling intelligence that elevated the lowborn Cromwell to power.

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2019

There are several checkerboard tunics of the kind worn by Atahualpa, the Inca king, at his first meeting with Francisco Pizarro, the lowborn Spanish conquistador.

From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2018

Jon — along with nearly everyone else in Westeros — believes he is the illegitimate son of Ned Stark and a lowborn woman.

From Time • Aug. 16, 2017

That’s true of Don, but it doesn’t preclude Dick Whitman, the lowborn child of a prostitute, from enduring his own bouts of blood and consumption when not under the guise of Don Draper.

From The New Yorker • May 16, 2015

As daughters of a landed knight, the twins were too lowborn to marry, but Cletus did not think that was any reason to stop kissing diem.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin