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upper class
noun as in cream of society
adjective as in wealthy, elite
Example Sentences
To show you a different aspect of helping the upper class but not the working class, the Fed’s securities purchases include buying debt issued by firms that are laying off workers while paying substantial dividends to shareholders.
Upper-class families, or those with educated children, are not free to duck custom either.
Since it could now survive travel over longer distances, lobster became a decadent treat for the American upper class.
Algae, sponges and coral now cover nuns, small children, and the elderly upper class.
Is this the kind of knowledge that most educated, upper class French person would have intuitively?
Watts does a good, blushing sideways glance and has her flat upper class intonations off to a tee.
Red-faced and white-bearded, he was unmistakably an Englishman of the upper class.
The cultured upper-class are extremely exclusive as regards their women.
Severnius was too modest a man to boast of belonging to the upper class of society, but that was what “our circles” meant.
All these women of the upper class uniformly write and speak better English than we do.
The fact of being ignored by the upper class students of Hamilton had not disturbed Jerrys ever ready sense of humor.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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