moneyed class

Example Sentences

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She was queer when it was not safe to be out, and lived for a spell in Europe where she didn’t quite fit in with the moneyed class.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2024

And like others that went up during the same distinguished period in the city’s architectural history, it has transformed over the past two decades, as the moneyed class has demanded more of tradition.

From New York Times • Nov. 19, 2021

But this year, the moneyed class began leaving the planet at a rapidly accelerating pace.

From Slate • Nov. 16, 2021

Suddenly not among the moneyed class, she hustled herself through the redbrick boondocks of the University of Vermont.

From The Verge • May 12, 2021

For the whole force of the break-up of feudal conditions was to turn the direction of power into the hands of a small, but moneyed class.

From Mediaeval Socialism by Jarrett, Bede