middle classes
- plural of middle class.
Example Sentences
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They are young, confident and many are well-off, sporting the latest iPhones and Yeezy boots alongside nose piercings, dreadlocks and tattoos, although his support is not confined to the middle-classes.
From BBC • Feb. 15, 2023
Those living in the park are mostly from Thailand's poorest provinces, although the anti-government movement is largely backed by Bangkok's middle-classes.
From Reuters • Apr. 9, 2014
Even for the under-employed middle-classes they are good for little more than a dinner party anecdote.
From The Guardian • Feb. 9, 2012
Cinemagoing was now a pastime of the respectable middle-classes.
From The Guardian • Apr. 8, 2011
My income is enough to live on; and I loathe myself for playing the capitalist with a bit of money like that, like the middle-classes; but I can't help it, you know.
From Small Souls by Couperus, Louis