Synonyms for upper-class
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1. upper class, upper crustadjective

   the class occupying the highest position in the social hierarchy

   Synonyms:
   upper crust, upper class

   Antonyms:
   upper-middle-class, middle-class, blue-collar, proletarian, working-class, wage-earning, conservative, lower-class, upper-lower-class, bourgeois, low-class, propertyless, non-U, materialistic, lower-middle-class

2. upper-classadjective

   occupying the highest socioeconomic position in a society

   Antonyms:
   materialistic, low-class, proletarian, working-class, middle-class, upper-lower-class, non-U, blue-collar, lower-class, upper-middle-class, wage-earning, bourgeois, lower-middle-class, conservative, propertyless

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1. List of paraphrases for "upper-class":

   upper

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1. Michael Lind:

   The Southern upper class never really cared what color the serfs were.

2. Mary McCarthy:

   In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands and thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency?

3. Paul Fussell:

   If you are an author and give one of your books to a member of the upper class, you must never expect him to read it.

4. Michael Rosenbaum:

   You’re like, ‘ No, he did n’t. I know my brother. He would n’t kill anybody. ’ It’s just so bizarre. The whole story I think is yet to come out. I think it’s just shocking and surprising. i thought she would be married with kids. She was smart, and her family was into music and opera and stuff, and sort of upper class.

5. Michael Rosenbaum:

   I thought she would be married with kids. She was smart, and her family was into music and opera and stuff, and sort of upper class.