lower orders
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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 company cited lower orders due to macroeconomic factors and currency-exchange issues.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2015
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
He would appear to have been in lower orders, if, in addition to being master of the grammar-school, he is the notary Robert Henryson who subscribes certain deeds in 1478.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
