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adjective

low-class adj.

Occupying the lowest socioeconomic position in a society. Contrasted with middle-class and upper-class. (Narrower terms: propertyless, wage-earning, working-class, blue-collar) Also See: lowborn, proletarian, propertyless.

Synonyms: lower-class (vs. upper-class).

Characteristic of the lower classes. (Narrower terms: non-U, vulgar) PJC)

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Etymology of 'Low-class'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... Pl. XXIV.] figures the hand of a low-class woman tatued with triangular and quadrangular blotches, and with some rude designs that appear to have been worked ...

— The Pagan Tribes of Borneo • Charles Hose and William McDougall

... not know that this occurs very often in Texas. Probably not, unless among low-class Negroes. In all likelihood if a Texas woman should appeal to her employer, and tell him that her husband had abandoned her, he would refuse to give the man her wages. Should the husband be in a position to invoke the law, he could claim his ...

— What eight million women want • Rheta Childe Dorr

... landing on an island situated 8 deg. 18' S. lat., and 156 deg. 30' E. long., had seen some iron bars and red stuffs used by the natives of these parts. Dumont d'Urville, much perplexed, and not knowing how to credit the reports of low-class journals, decided to ...

— Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea • Jules Verne

... unbuckled off, and forty-eight hours on a handful of rice. On the contrary, Tartarin's body was a stout honest bully of a body, very fat, very weighty, most sensual and fond of coddling, highly touchy, full of low-class appetite and homely requirements—the short, paunchy body on stumps of the immortal ...

— Tartarin of Tarascon • Alphonse Daudet

... a hundred men was gathered about the ill-lighted entrance to what had formerly been a low-class dancing-saloon. Adela saw them come thronging about the cab, heard their cries of discontent and of surprise when she ...

— Demos • George Gissing

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