lower orders
Example Sentences
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Adès takes more time fancifully tormenting the high and mighty than he does the lower orders.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2017
Otherwise, the lower orders would defect to the other side.
From Salon • Mar. 13, 2016
The company cited lower orders due to macroeconomic factors and currency-exchange issues.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2015
The emotional mind games escalate: the servant becomes the master, and both men are secretly ashamed; Tony of having fraternised with the lower orders, and Barrett of having been trifled with by his employer.
From The Guardian • Mar. 21, 2013
Well, partly the strong clerical feeling among the lower orders of the Neapolitans, and partly the skill with which the priests play upon this feeling for political ends.
From Naples Past and Present by Norway, Arthur H.
