lower orders
Example Sentences
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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
Speakeasies were breaking down old social barriers by creating spaces where the upper crust rubbed shoulders with the lower orders.
From The Guardian • May 3, 2013
This occasions a greater freedom and refinement of manners among the lower orders than we meet with in our own country.
From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas
