Antonyms for upper-classup·per-class

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1. upper class, upper crustadjective

   the class occupying the highest position in the social hierarchy

   Antonyms:
   upper-middle-class, middle-class, blue-collar, proletarian, working-class, wage-earning, conservative, lower-class, upper-lower-class, bourgeois, low-class, propertyless, non-U, materialistic, lower-middle-class

   Synonyms:
   upper crust, upper class

2. upper-classadjective

   occupying the highest socioeconomic position in a society

   Antonyms:
   materialistic, low-class, proletarian, working-class, middle-class, upper-lower-class, non-U, blue-collar, lower-class, upper-middle-class, wage-earning, bourgeois, lower-middle-class, conservative, propertyless

How to use upper-class in a sentence?

1. Fawaz Gerges:

   It will be extremely difficult to glue Syria back together as one country, the social fabric, the thick ties that bind it together have been dismantled, assad rule is really an area that corresponds more or less with a core identity area, yes there are many Sunnis and Christians living there but they see themselves as part of this core – the middle-class, upper-class Sunnis and Christians.

2. Phil Hill:

   It’s not unusual for a middle class, upper class family with soccer kids to be spending $20, $30, $40,000 a year to keep them all playing at the high level, the median household income of most kids we work with is $26,000. I mean you can do the math. It just locks them out.

3. Paul Fussell:

   If you are an author and give one of your books to a member of the upper class, you must never expect him to read it.

4. Michael Rosenbaum:

   You’re like, ‘ No, he did n’t. I know my brother. He would n’t kill anybody. ’ It’s just so bizarre. The whole story I think is yet to come out. I think it’s just shocking and surprising. i thought she would be married with kids. She was smart, and her family was into music and opera and stuff, and sort of upper class.

5. Michael Lind:

   The Southern upper class never really cared what color the serfs were.

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