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Low-class   Listen
adjective
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.
Synonyms: lower-class (vs. upper-class).
2.
Characteristic of the lower classes. (Narrower terms: non-U, vulgar) PJC)






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"Low-class" Quotes from Famous Books



... translations of low-class French romances, rendered even more unclean by their translation, have a poisonous effect upon the minds of the youths who devour them. Margaret, who had admired the boy's brilliant smiles and beautiful ...
— There was a King in Egypt • Norma Lorimer

... Irish country people are simple and charming. Tourists make them servile, insolent, and base. "The Irish are easily corrupted," he said, "because they are so simple. When they're corrupted, they're hard, they're rude, they're everything that's bad. But they're only that where the low-class tourists go, from America, and Glasgow, and Liverpool and these places." He seldom praised people, either for their work or for their personality. When he spoke of acquaintances he generally quoted a third person. ...
— John M. Synge: A Few Personal Recollections, with Biographical Notes • John Masefield

... thought of a passage by her was nausea. Three more torturing hours never dragged their slow length along for me than those I spent on board her coming over. Try and call up to yourself three hours in a low-class cook-shop, coated an inch thick with filth, and fitted over the boiler of a penny steamer dancing a marine break-down on the Thames, opposite the outlet of the main-drainage pipes. That, intensified by strange oaths and slop-basins, was the passage ...
— Romantic Spain - A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) • John Augustus O'Shea

... they both drank deeply of champagne, the monk and his friend went out to spend the evening at a low-class variety theatre, while I was left alone ...
— The Minister of Evil - The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia • William Le Queux

... decide which class of machine can be adopted with the greatest economy to the proprietor. The cost of lubricating materials, fuel, repairs, and percentage of cost to be put aside for depreciation, will be less in case of the high-class than in the low-class engine, while the former will also ...
— Scientific American Supplement No. 360, November 25, 1882 • Various

... instinctive cruelty—and that is a very fundamental matter—mankind mends steadily. I wonder and doubt if in the whole world at any time before this an aged, ill-clad woman, or a palpable cripple could have moved among a crowd of low-class children as free from combined or even isolated insult as such a one would be to-day, if caught in the rush from a London Council school. Then, for all our sins, I am sure the sense of justice is quicker and more nearly universal than ever before. Certain grave social evils, too, ...
— New Worlds For Old - A Plain Account of Modern Socialism • Herbert George Wells

... chat-sequel. What a mirror was saying about the dress, a wonderful Oriental fabric that gleamed like green diamonds, was absorbing the speaker's attention. The modiste who was fitting it had left the room to seek for pins, of which she had run dry. A low-class dressmaker would have been able to ...
— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan

... priest in the house of a low-class Sudra is strictly prohibited to a Brahman, and he loses caste thereby. He and other "twice born" are also driven out of caste if they throw away the sacred thread which is the outer badge of their ...
— India, Its Life and Thought • John P. Jones

... caricature and parody—they were low-class forces, but forces nevertheless—had already commenced the work of destruction. We are in possession of an abominable little poem of the thirteenth century, which is nothing but a scatological pamphlet directed against chivalry. This ignoble Audigier, ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 5 • Various



Words linked to "Low-class" :   blue-collar, upper-class, upper-lower-class, non-U, lowborn, middle-class, status, working-class, wage-earning, lower-class, position



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