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lower-class

lower-class \lower-class\ adj. same as low-class. Contrasted with middle-class and upper-class.

Syn: low-class.

Wiktionary
lower-class

a. 1 Not of the elite, of the peasantry or working-class. 2 Unrefined.

WordNet
lower-class

adj. occupying the lowest socioeconomic position in a society [syn: low-class] [ant: middle-class, upper-class]

Usage examples of "lower-class".

He also found that the regular polls, based on samplings, underestimated the opposition to the war among lower-class people.

The lower-class courtesans sat behind the wooden latticework facades of their brothels.

The Babbitts, for their part, behave equally snobbishly to the lower-class Overbrooks.

A pedestrian dish, almost lower-class, and not the clear consummes or lobster bisques that one would serve to impress—but he was not impressing anyone tonight.

A pedestrian dish, almost lower-class, and not the clear consummes or lobster bisques that one would serve to impress—but he was not impressing anyone tonight.

Flogging and death were the punishments meted out to Englishmen who refused to obey the orders of officers who had arbitrarily assumed command over them — English sailors were not likely to fret unduly over Dagoes in the same position, even though with English lower-class lack of logic they would have been moved to protest against a formal hanging of officers.

Strangely enough, his new acceptance by the company seemed to ease Louie's distaste for his lower-class fellow Sinthian, to a point where he actually entered into a business partnership with Spartacus to introduce the glide boards to their home planet.

My head cleared and it was very plain that he was simply a lower-class consumer-perhaps a hospital attendant?

It gave them another excuse to be troublesome, and they again whipped up mobs of the lower-class folk to march along the avenues, to mill about in the Place de la Concorde and eventually to surround the H&ocirc.

He wore the dreadlocks of a lower-class citizen, but the wealth of earrings and nose rings dangling from his pushed-in face announced his importance on the station.

Girls and lower-class boys often received only the most basic primary education, at which they were taught reading and arithmetic.

More often than not these quasi-zealots grudgingly retreat in the face of the uproars emanating from those lower-class troublesome committees on the Hill.