What is "upper-middle-class"

Usage examples of "upper-middle-class".

It was the difference between the manners of Tewksbury and Tuscumbia, between being brought up amid the cruelties of the almshouse and the affectionate warmth of an upper-middle-class Southern home, between an Irish cultural heritage of black pessimism and hot hatred of patronizing rulers and the genial, self-confident outlook of a class that despite the Civil War was still master.

When he sets out to depict what he conceives as the desirable type of human being, it turns out to be simply a cultivated, humanitarian version of the upper-middle-class rentier, the sort of person who in those days used to haunt picture galleries in Italy and subscribe heavily to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

In point of fact, my divorce from Irene had cost me plenty, making a shambles of both my bank account and my credit record, and Vickie's fondness for upper-middle-class counterculture artifacts, solar-powered trash compacters and so on, had depleted her resources as well.

The bowed head nodded almost imperceptibly and Nicholas returned into the amusement arcade and delivered the message in his roundest upper-middle-class tones which would make it marginally more certain that it would be delivered.

This last, a middle-age, upper-middle-class, middlebrow detective, is a prototype for Agatha Christie's Miss Jane Marple and other female amateur investigators of the golden age of detective fiction.

His mother and father had both provided him and his brother with what was considered to be the politically correct role models for an upper-middle-class American family.

Apparently this was the hour in upper-middle-class society where one had coffee with one's neighbors, even if one's neighbors were Maiutan ex-prisoners of war.