class conscious
Speech parts
1. class conscious - Adjective
2. class conscious - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
(used of society) socially hierarchical
Source: WordNetAlternative names
class-conscious
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Examples
American society is becoming increasingly stratified
He's grade-conscious, class-conscious, and too conscious of how his friends saw things, far too easily embarrassed by this girl he purports to ardently admire, and overly wary of the baggage of her being of a lower socioeconomic rung than he.
Ellison hopped freight trains to get to Alabama, and was soon to find out that the institution was no less class-conscious than white institutions generally were.
The relationship was frowned upon by Speer's class-conscious mother, who felt that the Webers were socially inferior.
They envisioned a body "formed from the class-conscious and best elements of the working classes."
It simply acknowledges the same class-conscious common sense that Powell’s memo expresses.