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fourth-class - definition and meaning
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adjective US A former class of mail consisting mostly of heavier printed matter
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But, strategically speaking, he was a fourth-class intellect who may have done lasting damage to the United States.
Letters to the Editor 2008
But, strategically speaking, he was a fourth-class intellect who may have done lasting damage to the United States.
Letters to the Editor 2008
And Beatrice and Virgil deserves to be severely reviled because this book, which should not have even been permitted even the fourth-class method of self-publication, earned its bumpkin author a six figure sum through indolence and incompetence.
Why Yann Martel’s Beatrice and Virgil is the Worst Book of the Decade : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2010
We are being pushed around like we are a fourth-class nation.
Daring Young Men RICHARD REEVES 2010
Teachers here are treated like second-class, third-class, fourth-class citizens.
Leonie Haimson: What Frank McCourt Could Teach Joel Klein and Arne Duncan 2009
Traveling as economically as possible, she carried not only enough food and reading for the trip but also a folding chair and a blanket: fourth-class travelers through Germany were not provided with seating.
Curie, Marie Sklodowska 2009
The Procrustes 'social structure is class-based, with lowly manual laborers (like the Engineer called Smith) being fourth-class citizens, their lives in the hands of the noble captain (a hermaphrodite named Ereshkigal) and her vassals.
REVIEW: The Space Opera Renaissance edited by David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer 2006
THE BADTreating "technical award" nominees like fourth-class citizens by lining them up onstage or handing out their awards in the aisle.
Newsmakers 2008
There were two reporters present, one representing a Folkestone paper and the other being a fourth-class interviewer and “symposium” journalist, whose expenses down, Filmer, anxious as ever for adequate advertisement — and now quite realising the way in which adequate advertisement may be obtained — had paid.
Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006
Christina Barlow had been a cheerleader, a fourth-class cadet in his squadron.
The Shattered Blue Line Patrick A. Davis 2005
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