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
Otherwise, the lower orders would defect to the other side.
From Salon • Mar. 13, 2016
The company cited lower orders due to macroeconomic factors and currency-exchange issues.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2015
The emotional mind games escalate: the servant becomes the master, and both men are secretly ashamed; Tony of having fraternised with the lower orders, and Barrett of having been trifled with by his employer.
From The Guardian • Mar. 21, 2013
One of the zoologists, conceiving this minor expedition would furnish him with an excellent opportunity for examining some of the lower orders of marine life, attached himself to it.