class-conscious

adjective

class-con·​scious ˈklas-ˈkän(t)-shəs How to pronounce class-conscious (audio)
1
: actively aware of one's common status with others in a particular economic or social level of society
2
: believing in class struggle
class consciousness noun

Examples of class-conscious in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web As the rules of White’s class-conscious universe dictate, the partnership is doomed. Judy Berman, TIME, 10 Sep. 2024 Unlike future versions that would run the gamut from boyish and conflicted (The Talented Mr. Ripley) to chessmaster-level calculating (Netflix’s Ripley), Delon’s class-conscious con man is more of a cypher. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2024 Sandra points out that chambermaids and barmaids are often powerless to resist their employers’ advances and that the Americans’ less class-conscious but more consensual approach to coupling is more equitable. Chris Klimek, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2024 Fresh starts and reinvention have been a lure since the first gold seekers — the ones digging actual nuggets — flocked here from the more straitened and class-conscious East Coast. Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2024 On Victory Day the boy Raban, not yet three years old, is standing in pajamas at his bedroom window, looking down at the celebrations and longing to join the village lads scampering below (his class-conscious mother has long ago warned him against playing with them). Colin Thubron, The New York Review of Books, 19 Jan. 2023 This paradigm imagines the class-conscious Evangelical clamoring for elite access and finally getting it. Andrew T. Walker, National Review, 31 Dec. 2023 If that makes the Troisgros family seem an incongruous choice of subject for this most class-conscious of American filmmakers, Wiseman has never been one to shy away from contradictions. Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2023 The tactile, class-conscious aesthetic of haves (Ali Wong’s Amy) and have-nots (Steven Yeun’s Danny), created by production designer Grace Yun and art director Michael Hersey, pursue a metaphorical vision. A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 31 May 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1899, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of class-conscious was in 1899

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“Class-conscious.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/class-conscious. Accessed 10 Oct. 2024.

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