pleb
Example Sentences
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After the "plebgate" incident at Downing Street in September 2012, then-Chief Whip Mr Mitchell apologised for using bad language but denied using the word pleb.
From BBC • Jan. 12, 2014
No 10 said the inquiry's scope was sufficient, after Cabinet Secretary Jeremy Heywood admitted he did not look at whether the word "pleb" was used.
From BBC • Jan. 10, 2013
Conservative MP Mr Mitchell has always denied using the word "pleb" but has admits he lost his temper and swore at the officers after they refused to let him cycle through the main gate.
From BBC • Dec. 19, 2012
How dare some nobody pleb have the temerity to criticise YOU.
From The Guardian • Nov. 8, 2012
Methinks He fears this pleb as he once feared Sicinius.
From Virginia, A Tragedy And Other Poems by Gilmore, Marion Forster
