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common |
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Astroturf, Attic, Babbittish, Mickey Mouse, Philistine, Spartan, absolute interest, accustomed, adequate, all right, artificial turf, ascetic, associated, austere, average, back-number, bald, banal, bare, base, baseborn, beggarly, below the salt, beneath contempt, benefit, besetting, bewhiskered, bourgeois, bowling green, breezy, bromidic, campy, candid, casual, central, chaste, cheap, cheesy, civic, civil, claim, classic, classical, cliched, coacting, coactive, coadjutant, coadjuvant, coarse, cockney, coefficient, collaborative, collective, collectivist, collectivistic, colloquial, collusive, combined, commensal, commonage, commoners, commonly known, commonplace, commons, communal, communalist, communalistic, communist, communistic, communitarian, community, commutual, concerted, concordant, concurrent, concurring, conjoint, conjunct, conniving, contemptible, contingent interest, conventional, conversational, cooperant, cooperating, cooperative, corny, corporate, cosmopolitan, crummy, current, customary, cut-and-dried, declasse, defiled, demeaning, despicable, direct, disadvantaged, dominant, down-to-earth, dry, dull, easement, ecumenic, epidemic, equitable interest, equity, estate, everyday, fade, fairway, familiar, fellow, flat, fourth-class, frank, frequent, frequentative, fusty, garden-variety, garden, gaudy, general, generic, gimcracky, golf course, golf links, good, grassplot, green, greenyard, grounds, habitual, hack, hackney, hackneyed, harmonious, harmonized, high-camp, holding, homely, homespun, household, humble, humdrum, in common, in the shade, inferior, informal, infra dig, insipid, interest, intermediary, intermediate, international, irregular, joint, junior, kitschy, lawn, lean, less, lesser, like, limitation, low-camp, low-class, low-grade, low-pressure, low-quality, low-test, low, lowborn, lowbred, lower, lowly, many, many times, matter-of-fact, mean, medial, median, mediocre, medium, meretricious, middle-class, middle-of-the-road, middling, minor, miserable, moderate, modest, moth-eaten, mundane, musty, mutual, national, natural, neat, no great shakes, nonclerical, noncompetitive, nondescript, nonstandard, normal, normative, not rare, notorious, of common occurrence, oft-repeated, oftentime, old hat, open, ordinary, ornery, overused, paltry, pandemic, paradise, park, part, pathetic, pedestrian, people, percentage, pitiable, pitiful, plain-speaking, plain-spoken, plain, plastic, platitudinous, plaza, pleasance, pleasure garden, pleasure ground, plebeian, plebeians, poetryless, polluted, poor, pop, populace, popular, predominant, predominating, prescriptive, prevailing, prevalent, proletarian, prosaic, prosing, prosy, proverbial, public, public park, punk, pure, pure and simple, putting green, rampant, rank and file, reciprocal, recurrent, regnant, regular, regulation, reigning, relaxed, repetitious, respective, rife, right, right of entry, routine, rubbishy, rude, ruling, run-of-mine, run-of-the-mill, running, rustic, sad, satisfactory, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, second-best, second-class, second-rate, second rank, second string, secondary, seedy, servile, set, settlement, severe, shabby-genteel, shabby, shared, shoddy, similar, simple-speaking, simple, sleazy, sober, social, socialistic, societal, sorry, spare, spoken, square, stake, stale, standard, stark, state, stereotyped, stock, straightforward, strict settlement, sub, subaltern, subject, subordinate, subservient, substandard, suburban, sufficient, supranational, symbiotic, synergetic, synergic, synergistic, tacky, talked-about, talked-of, tatty, thick-coming, third-class, third-estate, third-rate, third estate, third rank, third string, threadbare, timeworn, tinny, tired, tiresome, title, tolerable, trashy, trite, truistic, trumpery, trust, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, two-way, twopenny-halfpenny, twopenny, typical, unadorned, unaffected, unclean, uncompetitive, unconstrained, underprivileged, undistinguished, uneducated, unembellished, uneventful, unexceptionable, unexceptional, unexciting, unfussy, ungenteel, unidealistic, unimaginative, unimpassioned, unimpeachable, uninteresting, universal, universally admitted, universally recognized, unliterary, unnoteworthy, unoriginal, unpoetic, unpoetical, unrefined, unremarkable, unreserved, unromantic, unspectacular, unstudied, unvarnished, use, usual, valueless, vapid, vernacular, vested interest, vile, village green, vulgar, warmed-over, well-kenned, well-known, well-recognized, well-understood, well-worn, widely known, wonted, workaday, workday, worn, worn out, worn thin, worthless, wretched
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common knowledge |
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PR, accessible, affirmed, announced, ballyhoo, blurb, bright light, broadcast, brought to notice, celebrity, circulated, common property, cry, currency, current, daylight, declared, diffused, disseminated, distributed, eclat, exposure, fame, famousness, glare, hoopla, hue and cry, in circulation, in print, limelight, made public, maximum dissemination, notoriety, open, plug, press notice, proclaimed, propagated, public, public eye, public knowledge, public relations, public report, publicity, publicity story, publicness, published, puff, reclame, report, reported, spotlight, spread, stated, telecast, televised, write-up
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common law |
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Corpus Juris Canonici, Mishnah, Roman law, Spiritus Mundi, Sunna, Talmud, admiralty law, ancient wisdom, archetypal myth, archetypal pattern, blue law, canon law, case law, chancery law, civil law, commercial law, constitutional law, corporation law, criminal law, crown law, custom, decree law, droit des gens, dry law, ecclesiastical law, equity, folk motif, folklore, folktale, gag law, immemorial usage, international law, jus civile, jus commune, jus inter gentes, jus publicum, law merchant, legend, lex domicilii, lex fori, lex loci, lex mercatorum, lex non scripta, lex scripta, lex situs, local law, lore, martial law, myth, mythology, penal law, positive law, public law, racial memory, sea law, statute law, substantive law, tradition, traditionalism, traditionality, unwritten law, written law
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common man |
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Cockney, Everyman, John Doe, John Smith, Public, a nobody, a nothing, average, average man, body politic, bourgeois, cipher, citizenry, common run, commoner, commonwealth, community, community at large, dummy, estate, everybody, everyman, everyone, everywoman, figurehead, folk, folks, general public, generality, gentry, girl next door, homme moyen sensuel, insignificancy, jackstraw, lightweight, little fellow, little guy, little man, man of straw, mediocrity, men, nation, nationality, nebbish, nobody one knows, nonentity, obscurity, ordinary Joe, ordinary run, people, people in general, persons, pip-squeak, pleb, plebeian, polity, populace, population, proletarian, public, punk, roturier, ruck, run, runt, scrub, shrimp, small fry, small potato, small potatoes, society, squirt, squit, state, whiffet, whippersnapper, world, you and me
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common people |
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bourgeoisie, common run, common sort, commonage, commonality, commonalty, commoners, commons, laborers, linendrapers, lower classes, lower middle class, lower orders, lumpen proletariat, middle class, middle orders, ordinary people, peasantry, plain folks, plain people, proletariat, rank and file, shopkeepers, small tradesmen, the lower cut, the other half, the third estate, toilers, toiling class, upper middle class, vulgus, working class, working people
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common sense |
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admissibility, balance, cool head, coolheadedness, coolness, due sense of, good sense, gumption, horse sense, judgment, justifiability, justness, level head, levelheadedness, logic, logicality, logicalness, plain sense, plausibility, practical mind, practical wisdom, practicality, rationality, reason, reasonability, reasonableness, saneness, sanity, sense, sensibleness, sober-mindedness, soberness, sobriety, sound sense, soundness, sweet reason, wisdom
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abundant, accustomed, adequate, ascetic, associated, Attic, austere, average, back number, bald, banal, bare, base, baseborn, beggarly, beneath contempt, benefit, besetting, bewhiskered, bourgeois, breezy, candid, casual, central, chaste, cheap, cheesy, civic, civil, claim, classical, coadjutant, coarse, cockney, coefficient, cognate, collective, colloquial, combined, commensal, commonplace, commons, communal, communist, communistic, concerted, concordant, concurrent, conjoint, conniving, contemptible, conventional, conversational, cooperative, corny, cosmopolitan, crummy, current, customary, daily, decent, degage, demeaning, despicable, direct, disadvantaged, dominant, dry, dull, earthborn, easement, easygoing, ecumenical, epidemic, equity, estate, everyday, fade, fair, fairway, familiar, fellow, field, flat, fourth-class, frank, frequent, fusty, garden, garden variety, gaudy, general, generic, going, green, grounds, habitual, hack, hackneyed, harmonious, holding, homely, homespun, household, humble, humdrum, ignoble, impure, inferior, informal, insipid, interest, intermediary, intermediate, international, irregular, joint, junior, kindred, lawn, lean, less, lesser, limitation, lour, low, low class, low-grade, low-test, lower, lowly, many, mean, medial, median, mediocre, medium, meretricious, Mickey Mouse, middling, mill, minor, miserable, moderate, modest, moth-eaten, mundane, musty, mutual, national, natural, neat, noncompetitive, nondescript, normal, normative, notorious, old hat, open, ordinary, ornery, orthodox, paltry, pandemic, paradise, park, part, pathetic, pedestrian, percentage, Philistine, pitiful, plain, plain-spoken, plastic, platitudinous, pleasance, plebeian, polluted, poor, pop, popular, predominant, predominating, prescriptive, prevailing, prevalent, profane, prosaic, prosy, proverbial, public, punk, pure, rampant, reciprocal, recurrent, regnant, regular, regulation, reigning, related, relaxed, respective, rife, right, routine, rubbishy, rude, ruling, running, rustic, sad, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, second best, second string, second-class, second-rate, secondary, seedy, servile, set, settlement, severe, shabby, shoddy, simple, sleazy, sober, social, socialistic, sorry, spare, Spartan, spoken, square, stake, stale, standard, stark, state, stereotyped, stock, straightforward, sub, subaltern, subject, subordinate, subservient, suburban, sufficient, symbiotic, synergistic, tacky, talked about, tatty, tawdry, third-class, third-rate, threadbare, timeworn, tinny, tiresome, title, tolerable, traditional, trashy, trite, trumpery, trust, twopenny, typical, unadorned, unaffected, unclean, unconstrained, underprivileged, undistinguished, uneducated, unembellished, unexceptionable, unexceptional, unfussy, unidealistic, unimaginative, unimpassioned, united, universal, unliterary, unnoteworthy, unoriginal, unpoetical, unremarkable, unromantic, unspectacular, unstudied, unvarnished, use, usual, valueless, vapid, vernacular, vested interest, vile, vulgar, warmed-over, well-known, well-worn, wonted, workaday, worn, worthless, wretched
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