classless

adjective

ˈklas-ləs How to pronounce classless (audio)
Definition of classlessnext
as in boorish
having or showing crudely insensitive or impolite manners I object not so much to what he did as the classless way he did it

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Recent Examples of classless Louis Hartz maintained that the hegemony of liberal thought, with its vaunting of the classless individual, made Marxists politically superfluous. — Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025 Matty isn’t quite so classless this week. — Noel Murray, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2025 This type of behavior by Mayor Hammoud was uncalled for, classless, unprofessional and just plain wrong. — Niraj Warikoo, Freep.com, 20 Sep. 2025 Private ownership is eliminated with the goal of all goods being equally shared in a classless society. — Marley Malenfant, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for classless
Recent Examples of Synonyms for classless
  1. boorish
  2. stupid
  3. uncouth
  4. clownish
  5. loutish
  6. churlish
  7. vulgar
Adjective
  • The poem tells us of 12 slave girls who sleep with Penelope’s boorish suitors.
    — Natasha O'Neill, Vanity Fair, 16 July 2026
  • In the mid-19th century, a family of Dutch-Afrikaans homesteaders sets out to cross the inhospitable terrain of the Kalahari Desert along with their backer, a boorish Brit whose avarice and bigotry loom large over the journey.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 July 2026
Definition of boorish
Adjective
  • There are plenty of videos from Yellowstone National Park involving tourists doing breathtakingly stupid things around wild animals.
    — Amber Harding OutKick, FOXNews.com, 12 July 2026
  • Even when Romanzy goes off on how stupid and ugly Caleb is — and gossips that his parents abandoned him because something must be wrong with him — Mary goes along with it.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 11 July 2026
Definition of stupid
Adjective
  • An uncouth mix of stress and chlorine exposure recently left my skin simultaneously drier and more breakout-prone than it's been in quite a long time, and my usual routine of a quarter-size drop of skin tint just wasn’t cutting it anymore.
    — Sarah Hoffmann, Allure, 1 July 2026
  • And any expression otherwise is so taboo or deemed uncouth, and we aren’t allowed to talk about it in our art and media.
    — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 14 May 2026
Definition of uncouth
Adjective
  • Martin showed that even a clownish gentleman with a pure heart could woo someone like Tisha Campbell’s Gina.
    — Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 8 June 2026
  • The Black characters that appeared on-screen closely resembled the clownish stereotypes popularized by the minstrels.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
Definition of clownish
Adjective
  • Meanwhile, the palace has been besieged by loutish suitors, led by the scheming Antinous (Robert Pattinson), all of them vying for the queen’s hand in remarriage and mooching off the absent king’s food and wine.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 17 July 2026
  • And Trump’s domineering, loutish approach to women spoke to its adherents in a way that few, if any, of his rivals could match.
    — Peter Wehner, The Atlantic, 10 June 2026
Definition of loutish
Adjective
  • But America’s been such an important country for us that to not turn up would’ve been churlish.
    — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
  • But this churlish little spurt from his players?
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2026
Definition of churlish
Adjective
  • Lonnie is loud, obnoxious, and vulgar in ways that rankle traditional golfers.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 16 July 2026
  • Suki, a vocal Black woman with an at times vulgar persona, whereas Althoff, a white woman, gained a reputation as an awkward, seemingly timid interviewer on her The Really Good Podcast.
    — Meagan Jordan, VIBE.com, 10 July 2026
Definition of vulgar

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