Synonyms for upper-class
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1. upper class, upper crustadjective

   the class occupying the highest position in the social hierarchy

   Synonyms:
   upper crust, upper class

   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

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "upper-class":

   upper

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1. Michael Rosenbaum:

   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.

2. Mary McCarthy:

   In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands and thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency?

3. 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.

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. Economist Brian Jackson:

   Many large malls (and residential construction) in China.... are all hoping to target one demographic -- the upper class, what is needed to succeed is retail space that caters to (the much larger) bulk of middle-class Chinese.