middle class
middle class
noun
the social class between the aristocracy or very wealthy and the lower working class: people in business and the professions, highly skilled workers, well-to-do farmers, etc. are now generally included in the middle class
middle-class (-klas′)
adjective
of, having to do with, or characteristic of the middle class: often used variously to connote conventional, smug, materialistic, etc. attitudes
Adjective modifier
- white: They tend to be southern, white, middle class, middle-aged and well educated.
Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life.
We had intended you to be The next Prime Minister but three: The stocks were sold; the Press was squared; The Middle Class was quite prepared. But as it is! My language fails! Go out and govern New South Wales!
That is the worst thing about being a middle-class womanyou have more knowledge of yourself and the world: you are equipped to make choices, but there are none left to make.
He was rotund, provincial, resolutely middle-class, studiously ambiguous and sometimes wavering in his opinions.
Fora Jewish Puritanofthemiddleclass,thenovel isserious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious applicationö why,thenovelispractically theretailbusinessalloveragain.
The silver-haired, pipe-smoking northerner was a consummate British politician: tenacious, shrewd, manipulative, a blend of homespun tastes, acid wit and pragmatic, often shifting policiesthe symbol of an emerging middle-class Briton. McGonagall
A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle-class unit.
I'm one of theundeserving poorup agen middle-class moralityall the time What is middle-class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.
We ofthesinking middle classhavenothing to losebut our aitches.
What foolsmiddle-classgirls are to expect other people to respect the same gods as themselves and E M Forster.
If any writer thinks the world is full of middle-class people of nice sensibilities, then he is out of his mind.
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