as in aristocratic
of high birth, rank, or station
his blue-blooded in-laws and working class parents hit it off despite their different backgrounds
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Recent Examples of blue-blooded
Extending her already impressive range, Thompson carries herself like a blue-blooded aristocrat, her spine straight and lips pursed, all the better to sharpen her features.
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Peter Debruge, Variety, 28 Oct. 2025
So just more of these blue-blooded programs down there.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2025
The official khipu experts would have been born to blue-blooded families and raised for positions of importance.
—ArsTechnica, 14 Aug. 2025
Peter Debruge, Variety, 28 Oct. 2025
So just more of these blue-blooded programs down there.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2025
The official khipu experts would have been born to blue-blooded families and raised for positions of importance.
—ArsTechnica, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blue-blooded
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Rosewood Schloss Fuschl, meanwhile, is located in the former hunting lodge of the Prince-Archbishops of Salzburg, and its Munich branch sits at the former Bavarian State Bank headquarters and the adjacent Palais Neuhaus-Preysing, originally an aristocratic residence from the 1700s.—
Tianwei Zhang,
Footwear News,
4 Nov. 2025
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Federalist critics in Congress argued the colonnades looked aristocratic.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
24 Oct. 2025
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Researchers finally confirmed the noble identity of skeletal remains first discovered over a hundred years ago.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Nov. 2025
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Guiteau, though, is a lot less noble than Garfield, and a lot less humble.—
David Bianculli,
NPR,
10 Nov. 2025
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“Blue-blooded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blue-blooded. Accessed 17 Nov. 2025.
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