aristocracy
Example Sentences
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Thomas Jefferson disdained the “artificial aristocracy” that marked governments before our own.
This level of self-regard in a writer and thinker as justifiably exalted as Smith may explain why our nation is turning on reading: aristocracies breed resentment among the proles.
From Los Angeles Times
Federalists in Congress said the columned walkways had a whiff of aristocracy unbefitting the building’s democratic simplicity.
It was popular with the British aristocracy and celebrities in the 1960s and 1970s.
From BBC
Most convicts had been found guilty of theft, with many being repeat offenders, but some were deported for crimes as petty as trampling on the turnips of the local aristocracy.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
