demotic

A slab from the Roman era was also found with hieroglyphic and demotic inscriptions, which may give more clues once restored.

She held grudges, and wrote about them using language more demotic than regal: “You’re an idiot and I hate your guts,” she sang on her song “Idiot,” from 2005.

A series of interconnected short narratives about a group of friends, “Trainspotting” is inventive, scurrilous, gloriously demotic and entirely itself.

He would waffle in demotic English and then answer a charge with a quotation from Seneca.

Today’s readers, used to the twittering demotic of our age, may need to adjust to this titanic prose-poem’s leisurely, mandarin style.