Underclass

"Underclass" in a Sentence (5 examples)

Laborers in the emerging underclass who cater to the whims of the better-off are sometimes referred to as “wealth workers."

Capitalism does not allow everyone to succeed; it requires an underclass.

The two are immediately caught up in a terrorist plot to rid the earth of its underclass, and this gives Nobby the chance to live out a James Bond fantasy of Englishness, with his own lager-swilling twist.

Still, among New York’s creative underclass — cash poor but culturally potent — it feels like everything but socialism is now irrelevant.

While there are reasons to be optimistic about this trend, there is also something queasy about the emergence of a new underclass of urban servants.

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