: of low or inferior quality or social status
a low-class neighborhood
His usual haunt seemed to be a low-class eating-house on the outskirts of the town.—
Joseph Conrad
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Tinsley highlights that these beauty aesthetics, oftentimes coded as low-class and racialized, are in actuality impractical for hard labor and therefore should reinforce the idea of feminine ease that is not often afforded to the Black women who pioneered these styles.
—Cierra Black, Essence, 19 Apr. 2024
Cierra Black, Essence, 19 Apr. 2024
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“Low-class.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/low-class. Accessed 27 Apr. 2024.
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