Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to the lower socioeconomic classes.
- adjective Vulgar or crude; common.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Occupying the lowest socioeconomic position in a society. Contrasted with
middle-class andupper-class . - adjective characteristic of the lower classes.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective occupying the lowest socioeconomic position in a society
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Examples
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According to journalist Herbert Asbury, the author of Gangs of New York, the district was occupied “for the most part, by freed Negro slaves and low-class Irish” who “crowded indiscriminately into the old rookeries of the Points.”
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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You have broken through to red wines and you wonder why you ever bothered with that low-class swill.
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You have broken through to red wines and you wonder why you ever bothered with that low-class swill.
Evan Dawson 2009
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I felt like the "Anonymous" comment was a sort of put-down that we are low-class enough to "know" people who would say such negative things to us, but I feel like even the best of us might be suprised to find ourselves having to interact with people like this someday, through no fault of our own.
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Early on, "the flickers" were often regarded as tawdry, low-class entertainments for illiterate immigrants.
Uptown Theaters Followed a Spiritual Path Will Friedwald 2011
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You have broken through to red wines and you wonder why you ever bothered with that low-class swill.
LENNDEVOURS: 2009
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The negative meaning is of poor, low-class, uneducated, disorganized and dirty people.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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As such, his low-class behavior for years is hard to excuse.
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Well, leave it to a Republican to scrape the bottom of the low-class barrel.
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Early on, "the flickers" were often regarded as tawdry, low-class entertainments for illiterate immigrants.
Uptown Theaters Followed a Spiritual Path Will Friedwald 2011
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