lower orders
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Dassault Aviation AM 7.01%increase; green up pointing triangle shares climbed after the French aerospace group posted a strong set of sales and earnings for the first half of the year despite booking sharply lower orders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Did his school peers get under his skin: their sense of entitlement, their contempt for the lower orders, their noise, their vulgarity and artlessness?
From The Guardian ● Feb. 1, 2020
Adès takes more time fancifully tormenting the high and mighty than he does the lower orders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2017
The pigs of “Animal Farm” would certainly look askance at an agreement that was normally reserved for the elites being applied to the lower orders.
From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2015
After all, how could a scuffle about a union affect the lower orders?
From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
