aristocratic
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Severus’ family was wealthy and aristocratic: They could afford to educate him expensively and expected him to pursue a career in public life.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
I didn’t realize it at the time, but there was also insecurity there: An American embarrassed by a rough, unsophisticated America, envious of Europe’s aristocratic polish.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026
The afterglow of aristocratic grace, the poet noted, was obscured by the “rising tide of democracy, which invades and levels all things.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026
"I know it's tradition but it suggests MPs are on some kind of aristocratic level," she says.
From BBC • Dec. 29, 2025
It was not big nor red, like poor ‘Petrea’s’, it was only rather flat, and all the pinching in the world could not give it an aristocratic point.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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