Nor is it clear that police officers deserve more protection from verbal assault than ordinary citizens.
RockMelt looks like an ordinary browser, except for the little toolbars on the right and left sides.
But it is ordinary people who are going to be hit hard by this and it is going to be a long and painful process of adjustment.
The measure galvanizing the group was no ordinary bill—but rather the most sweeping immigration reform in the country.
Is this a variant of that elite condescension for ordinary folks who are "bitter," and who "cling to guns and religion"?
They seemed to be the ordinary chances of war, and so he took them.
“And so I have,” said Randall with something of his ordinary humour.
There is now, then, some occasion for a more glittering display than ordinary?
Are they not sufficiently well paid to have the ordinary comforts of life?
Moreover it is a little out of the ordinary, and all-American.
early 15c., "belonging to the usual order or course," from Old French ordinarie "ordinary, usual" and directly from Latin ordinarius "customary, regular, usual, orderly," from ordo (genitive ordinis) "order" (see order (n.)). Its various noun usages, dating to late 14c. and common until 19c., now largely extinct except in out of the ordinary (1893). In British education, Ordinary level (abbrev. O level), "lowest of the three levels of General Certificate of Education," is attested from 1947. Related: Ordinarily.