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aristocracy

noun as in privileged class, government

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Thomas Jefferson disdained the “artificial aristocracy” that marked governments before our own.

This level of self-regard in a writer and thinker as justifiably exalted as Smith may explain why our nation is turning on reading: aristocracies breed resentment among the proles.

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Federalists in Congress said the columned walkways had a whiff of aristocracy unbefitting the building’s democratic simplicity.

It was popular with the British aristocracy and celebrities in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Most convicts had been found guilty of theft, with many being repeat offenders, but some were deported for crimes as petty as trampling on the turnips of the local aristocracy.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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