classist
adjective
uk/ˈklɑː.sɪst/us/ˈklæs.ɪst/treatingsomeoneunfairlyor havingnegativeopinionsabout thembasedontheirsocialclass(=economicandsocialposition),especiallybecause they arethoughtto be from alowsocialclass:
Ifoundthediscussionofstreetclothesandstreetcultureto beracistand classist.
Welivein aninherentlyclassistsociety.
- There's somethinginherentlyclassist about theideathat you canavoidinconvenienceif you canaffordtopaya little more.
- Some havearguedthatsmokingbansare classist, sincesmokingratesarehigheramonglowsocioeconomicgroups.
- Hethinkswelivein acapitalistic, classistsocietythat isharmfulto most ofitsmembers.
- Somedoctorsare classist and are reallycondescendingtopoorpeople.
- He made a very classistcomment.
Class & class-consciousness in general
- anti-bourgeois
- anti-snob
- arriviste
- bougie
- gentrify
- go/come down in the worldidiom
- go/come up in the worldidiom
- heap
- petit bourgeois
- petty bourgeois
- pleb
- plebby
- social mobility
- the bottom of the heapidiom
- the gentry
- the petite bourgeoisie
- the upper crust
- trailer trash
- underclass
- upper class
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Unfairness and favouring someone unfairly