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class prejudice



NOUN
glass ceiling
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A cross-party group of MPs had claimed the lack of knighthoods a "scandal" linked to snobbery and class prejudice.

From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2025

As the infidelity plot barrels toward its reckoning with class prejudice, and the moody, thumping cello returns to Isabella Summers’ strings-centered score, Corrin’s vibrant performance keeps us engaged.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2022

He revisits many of his signature themes, such as desperate youthful love and its consequences, as well as class prejudice.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2021

The family tree and webs of relationships are more complex, and Austen’s critique of the societal pressures that suffocated women, along with the class prejudice, is especially searing.

From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2021

The soil in which true distinction is rooted is of a quality too rich, too fertile to be affected by class prejudice.

From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II by Mrs. Russell Barrington




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