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Synonyms for middle-class


Grammar : Adj
Spell : mid-l-klas, -klahs
Phonetic Transcription : ˈmɪd lˈklæs, -ˈklɑs



Définition of middle-class

Origin :
  • 1766; as an adjective, "characteristic of the middle class" (depreciative) it dates from 1893.
  • adj common
Example sentences :
  • This middle-class sentiment, or socialism, or whatever it may be, is rotten.
  • Extract from : « Strife (First Series Plays) » by John Galsworthy
  • I had read, in books by English writers, of the British middle-class Pharisee.
  • Extract from : « Kent Knowles: Quahaug » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • The Manila middle-class native, in particular, possesses none of this.
  • Extract from : « The Philippine Islands » by John Foreman
  • That is the life of the middle-class woman, as you probably know.
  • Extract from : « The Daffodil Mystery » by Edgar Wallace
  • England's middle-class government was the ideal of human progress.
  • Extract from : « The Education of Henry Adams » by Henry Adams
  • His parents, who were middle-class people, were well-to-do in the world.
  • Extract from : « Short Studies on Great Subjects » by James Anthony Froude
  • The Dunces were middle-class and Whiggish, their spirit capitalist.
  • Extract from : « Two Poems Against Pope » by Leonard Welsted
  • Certainly they never seem at home in a middle-class society.
  • Extract from : « Two Poems Against Pope » by Leonard Welsted
  • The effect upon the middle-class Whigs is, however, more to my purpose.
  • Extract from : « The English Utilitarians, Volume I. » by Leslie Stephen
  • The middle-class farmer is above all men exclusive in his ideas.
  • Extract from : « The Toilers of the Field » by Richard Jefferies

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