The word 'plebeian' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is an adjective that refers to something or someone related to or characteristic of the common people, lacking refinement or sophistication. Example: The aristocratic family looked down upon the plebeian guests at the party, considering them to be beneath their social status.
The success may have been imperial but the game was plebeian for the most part and ended in near-anarchy.
True representation, they claim, can be guaranteed by the one great leader – think of Hugo Chávez's claim "I am a little of all of you" or the slogan "Indira is India", or Orbán's self-identification as "right-wing plebeian".
While his neighbours were building their socialist commune, his Russian-born parents put up a fence to keep such plebeian ideas out.
CATO the Elder may have served Rome as quaestor, aedile, praetor and consul, but he came from an ancient plebeian family in the Sabine region.
Exploiting deeply-rooted prejudices against aristocrats and Germans (and thus especially against German-speaking aristocrats) that still appears to hold sway among older Czechs, Mr. Zeman portrayed himself as a plebeian.
Mr Dollé claimed that Arcelor is producing aristocratic perfume whilst Mittal is making plebeian eau de cologne.
Some are honest enough to admit that their snobby parents will shun links with the plebeian inner cities.But the main hostility to the new plan comes from the egalitarian-minded educational hierarchy, based in existing state schools and their bureaucratic penumbra.
Not for him to be judged by some plebeian benchmark of "relative" performance.
The second most important, William Buckley, celebrates his 80th birthday this month.A harpsichord-playing east-coast patrician whose list of favourite saints would surely include Moritz and Tropez might seem an odd figure of worship for a populist, often downright plebeian, movement rooted in the strip-malls of the West and the South.
Such carriages were designed not only to free the traveller from the discomfort of public transport but also to display wealth, status, technological superiority and, as John Ruskin put it, to achieve "the abashing of plebeian beholders".
The canny owner-occupiers of other big houses have made them into thriving businesses, with model railways, safari parks, paintballing and other plebeian attractions.Lord Hesketh likes showing off his house to guests, but not that much.
