aristocratic
Example Sentences
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Severus’ family was wealthy and aristocratic: They could afford to educate him expensively and expected him to pursue a career in public life.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
"I know it's tradition but it suggests MPs are on some kind of aristocratic level," she says.
From BBC • Dec. 29, 2025
“Under our ownership, the Daily Telegraph will become a global brand, just as the Daily Mail has,” said Chairman Jonathan Harmsworth, who is also known by his aristocratic title Viscount Rothermere.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 22, 2025
Tempering democratic rhetoric with aristocratic restraint, he rises above the divisions of debate to deliver the funeral oration when Athens buries its dead sons in the war’s first winter.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
Before him was a blue-haired, aristocratic woman, very small, elegant, and old.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
