underclass

noun

un·der·class ˈən-dər-ˌklas

: the lowest social stratum usually made up of disadvantaged minority groups

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The story of the underclass, including those who are forgotten and don’t have a voice, has long fascinated McAvoy. —

Yuri Kageyama, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Jan. 2024 Combined, Joe’s dynamic drive, the gritty setting among the underclass of ’60s-era Tokyo, and the animation’s strategic mix of motion and stillness, all form an indelible whole. —

Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2024 The uncomfortable truth is that the welfare system has created the underclass. —

Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024 Despentes offers no quarter to her titular hero, whose dark wit and casually racist rants come at the reader in a mad rush of metaphors and aphorisms, Despentes’s gutter vernacular of the underclass. —

Marc Weingarten, The Atlantic, 23 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for underclass