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class-conscious

adjective

  1. aware of belonging to a particular social rank or grade, esp in being hostile or proud because of class distinctions


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Derived Forms

  • ˌclass-ˈconsciousness, noun

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Example Sentences

This class-conscious novel with a feminist heroine looks better the older it gets.

In the Trade Union movement which was spreading over the world, he believed he saw this development of class-conscious labour.

That must surely be idealistic which is "saturated with class-conscious socialism."

The class-conscious workingman knows that present industrial conditions compel woman to enter into competition with man.

The centralised Unions undoubtedly owe their origin chiefly to the Social Democratic exertions, and are strongly class-conscious.

Sometimes he was moved to song, and unearthly fragments of "Class-conscious we are" or "Proley Tarians, arise!"

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