lower orders
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Did his school peers get under his skin: their sense of entitlement, their contempt for the lower orders, their noise, their vulgarity and artlessness?
From The Guardian • Feb. 1, 2020
Adès takes more time fancifully tormenting the high and mighty than he does the lower orders.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2017
The company cited lower orders due to macroeconomic factors and currency-exchange issues.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2015
The pigs of “Animal Farm” would certainly look askance at an agreement that was normally reserved for the elites being applied to the lower orders.
From Salon • Apr. 16, 2015
Then, again, he seemed to divide himself, as the lower orders of life at the bottom 55 of the seas divide themselves, appearing on both sides of a dark space at the same moment.
From Boy Scouts in the Northwest Fighting Forest Fires by Ralphson, G. Harvey (George Harvey)
