pleb

Example Sentences

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But he also maintained: "I think most people who know me know I would not use words like pleb or moron in describing anyone."

From BBC • Oct. 18, 2013

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

How dare some nobody pleb have the temerity to criticise YOU.

From The Guardian • Nov. 8, 2012

Ian Brookes says that these days, the word is mostly used by somebody about themselves as a mark of false modesty, such as, "I'm such a pleb when it comes to modern art."

From BBC • Sep. 21, 2012

And these two, a patrician and a pleb, Each representing classes now united By common misery, are foully hurt, And scarred by fierce injustice from the Ten.

From Virginia, A Tragedy And Other Poems by Gilmore, Marion Forster