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Recent Examples of upper-class
Adjective
Advertisement More lies add up: Cherry joins the family at their second home in Málaga, Spain and has a ton of anxiety about fitting in with their upper-class lifestyle. Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 10 Sep. 2025 Other notes reference the Gordon Riots — an uprising in 1780 spurred by anti-Catholic sentiment — and the Mohocks, a violent gang of upper-class young men who got drunk and attacked people. Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
International schools in Kenya have long been considered a preserve of the upper classes, but this is changing fast. Martin K.n Siele, semafor.com, 5 Sep. 2025 The upper class began sporting this more elevated attire for evening events–this included dark colors like the more traditional shades of black and blue. Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 23 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for upper-class
Recent Examples of Synonyms for upper-class
Adjective
  • In The Pink Panther, Cardinale starred as the wealthy Princess Dala, whose priceless diamond becomes the target of an aristocratic jewel thief played by David Niven.
    Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Beyond that, people found the Mitfords’ very, very aristocratic accent extremely annoying.
    Mimi Pond, People.com, 14 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Like Macbeth, King Henry met his tragic end when a civil war broke out and the aristocracy turned against him.
    Marlene L. Daut September 22, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
  • That world is where Downton's Cora Crawley (Elizabeth McGovern) comes from, once a young American heiress who married into the British aristocracy to help preserve the Downton estate with her dowry.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But in, say, the French Revolution, things got going in part because of the popular unrest and the popular upheavals, but also because there was an inner circle of members of the French nobility who were totally pissed at Louis XVI.
    Nikki McCann Ramirez, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2025
  • So there's a nobility in that, but also an ickiness.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Her dalliance with England's upper crust didn't stop there, either — the baker went on to provide the cake for Queen Elizabeth II's 90th birthday in 2016.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Even with the other guys' admonitions not to, under any circumstances, be themselves, Dee and Charlie's improbable success in charming these scions of the Philly upper crust had the guys — and us — both baffled and anxiously awaiting an ugly twist.
    Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • Parker will play Mary Washington, George’s strong willed mother, while Rodgers will play Sally Cary, the charming beauty of the Virginia gentry who first sees his potential.
    Alex Ritman, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Elordi plays Heathcliff, the romantic anti-hero who is discovered on the streets before being taken in by a wealthy member of Britain’s landed gentry, only to fall in love with their daughter.
    Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Upper-class.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/upper-class. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.

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