The patrician citizens of Roman society had more privileges than the plebeian citizens.    From LearnThat.org. 

A plebeian magistrate.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : a plebeian joke.    From Dictionary.com. 

The term plebeian is used in this study in the sense that it was defined by E.P. Thompson in his discussion of eighteenth-century English society.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gutenber-e Help Page] Reference

Such rhetoric made few incursions in plebeian culture because it clashed with the reality of women's lives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gutenber-e Help Page] Reference

But the "Catholic = Irish" segment faltered within plebeian culture as many English Protestants were absorbed into the Catholic community.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gutenber-e Help Page] Reference

He belonged to a family of high rank and unbending pride which would brook no mésalliance, and yet wealth could no longer be considered secure except in plebeian hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indiana] Reference

A big difference between the campaigns of Graf and Huffman could be described as plebeian vs. patrician.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-08-01] Reference

A plebeian from the last to the first rank of society, supposes some qualifications above the level of the multitude.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference

Mrs. Wilkie would not have what she was pleased to term a plebeian designation, and insisted on calling him Alexander.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysteries of Montreal Being Recollections of a Female Physician] Reference

She then called the plebeian matrons together and told them how unjustly she had been treated by the patrician ladies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Rome, Vol. II] Reference

The virtues which these teach are of an opposite kind; they are what we may call the plebeian virtues which lead to success.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19] Reference

The patrician curiæ were called, emphatically, the council of the people; (concilium populi;) the third estate was called plebeian, (plebs.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Pinnock's improved edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome $b to which is prefixed an introduction to the study of Roman history, and a great variety of valuable information added throughout the work, on the manners, institutions, and antiquities of the Romans; with numerous biographical and historical notes; and questions for examination at the end of each section. $c By Wm. C. Taylor.] Reference

He told her to say "plebeian" so that she would not sound like a county sno 'b.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Key to Rebecca]

Clara had lately discovered the meaning of the word "plebeian"; more, she believed she comprehended its applicableness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Different Girls] Reference

The Ludi Plebeii in November seem to have been a kind of plebeian duplicate of the Ludi Romani.    From Wordnik.com.  [Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero] Reference

"plebeian" lover, there was another that was the strongest of all.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Second Generation] Reference

"Ah, Devereux, you poison my enjoyment by the mere word 'plebeian'!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devereux — Complete] Reference

Her plebeian origin and business habits were a vice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

"I hope you don't mind this plebeian way of getting about?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Juggernaut] Reference

Why then do not the plebeian and patrician bouquets equally please?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

The Prince's coachman would not condescend to drive a plebeian like her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Wherever else he may set his plebeian foot, Lexley Hall shall be sacred.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference

The hostile parties of Colonna and Orsini then join to destroy the hated plebeian.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference

The inquiry and criticism of plebeian minds were becoming more daring, and there was.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

The Prince smiled disdainfully, saying these fears were the effect of plebeian timidity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The result was that his family was a plebeian one, from which no mandarin had ever sprung.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chinese Folk-Lore Tales] Reference

The struggle was not so much between patrician and plebeian as between the rich and the poor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference

This may be rather plebeian, but is certainly palatable, -- unless there be choice company to dine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference

It is the unmistakable brand of the plebeian, and compromises the one who favors it, beyond amendment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference

The ordinary gooseberry is a plebeian fruit, but this one was more patrician than its name, and its name was.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aunt Jane of Kentucky] Reference

Persis 'ringing tones had a heartiness which seemed plebeian contrasted with Mrs. Richards' subdued murmurs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference

Aside from washing, I am addicted to that unpoetical, homely, dry, and utterly plebeian practice of doing my own work.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

They are as unbounded as the Internet and as plebeian as the Backstreet Boys, a daunting world for any parent to enter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secret Life Of Teens] Reference

Slogging at the heavy trawls and afterward dressing the catch was too plebeian a business for the son of a millionaire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

It is not the wild plebeian instinct that goes for our country right or wrong, which forms the real element of our strength.    From Wordnik.com.  [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference

Lucius Sextius was chosen as the first plebeian consul, and Camillus, having thus a third time saved the state, dedicated a temple to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference