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Adjective(1) belonging to the lowest and least privileged social stratum

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(1) Still in my head and in my style of living I'm very much underclass , working class.(2) Yet, the nouveau riche are vastly outnumbered by a huge underclass of desperately poor people.(3) Should we be devoting more public resources to the young or the old, the business class or the underclass ?(4) There is also the growing underclass of young unemployed people who have little prospect of moving upwards.(5) The servants in Middleton's play represent an underclass that lives and thrives by irony, especially the irony of noble birth.(6) In previous history the middle classes have always kept one step a head of the hordes of working classes and its offshoots the underclass .(7) In one sense, campaigns often help foster a permanent underclass in politics.(8) New levels were added to cover the underclass of people who have never worked and the long-term unemployed.(9) This has raised the spectre of an new underclass and highlights contentious issues of the class nature of the open-door policy in the country.(10) Instead of helping the underclass he is tarring the whole community with the same brush.(11) they are an underclass who lack any stake in popular capitalism and who are caught in the dependency culture(12) The two sections of society most damaged by the growing paralysis in social mobility are the lower middle class and the underclass at the bottom of the heap.(13) It will simply swell the criminal underclass that the government seeks to eradicate.(14) In the cities, a disenfranchised underclass looked to the cinema to give them a voice.(15) This fiction is realistic, often portraying the lives of common people and the underclass in the face of adversity.(16) Unfair price fixing and unilateral policies cause financial hardships for members of the underclasses wishing to consume the product.