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What is "low-class"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
low-class
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a low-class street in the downtown area
▪ a low-class woman
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A low-class stuntman was paid about $ 5 a day.
▪ Because of all those people coming and going, such low-class ruffians, the sort you'd never see in the Palace otherwise.
▪ Normally Roberto shunned the low-class and dingy.
▪ Until I was 13 or 14 years old I became a low-class stuntman.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
low-class

low-class \low-class\ adj.

  1. Occupying the lowest socioeconomic position in a society. Contrasted with middle-class and upper-class. [Narrower terms: propertyless, wage-earning, working-class, blue-collar] Also See: lowborn, proletarian, propertyless.

    Syn: lower-class (vs. upper-class).

  2. characteristic of the lower classes. [Narrower terms: non-U, vulgar] PJC]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
low-class

1868, from low (adj.) + class (n.).

WordNet
low-class

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

Usage examples of "low-class".

The fact that she was a low-class, deceitful Irishwoman caused Granger only minor worry.

These children are regular patrons of the Bowery Theatre and the low-class concert halls.

The satiric songs with which these low-class Hellenes were wont to antagonize their adversaries were scarcely less stupid than the grotesque imprecations from the Jewries.

But now only low-class women who cater for the tastes of men are allowed to practice the sixty-four arts, which is terribly unfair, but you know the Brahmans .

At one point he turned up with what was clearly a low-class Russian hooker and carted her around for the rest of the trip.

Those with normal feet were peasants, servants, low-class prostitutes, amahs or workers, and despised.

He shut the double oak doors, cutting off the repulsive sound of that game show in the living room and all those shouting low-class slugs.

But all she saw through the windows was trash, low-class living, discarded stuff, cans, longnecks, empty pizza cartons… She wished now Gary Hammond had come with her.