chattering class

Frequency: 4.50.8 per million words

Used, often disapprovingly, to refer to the educated middle-class people who express their opinions on political and social matters.

chatteringADJECTIVE + NOUN

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class

Examples (10)

  • The prime minister dismissed the criticism as mere noise from the metropolitan chattering class.
  • Newspaper columnists and TV pundits are often seen as the voice of the chattering class.
  • His policies, while popular with voters, were met with scorn from the liberal chattering class.
  • There's a growing disconnect between the concerns of ordinary people and the obsessions of the chattering class.
  • This book, with its complex intellectual arguments, seems aimed squarely at the chattering class.
  • The latest political scandal is all the talk among the London chattering class.
  • The term 'chattering class' is often used pejoratively to suggest a group that is out of touch with reality.
  • As a university lecturer and avid reader of literary journals, she was undeniably a member of the chattering class.
  • The debate was full of jargon understood only by the political chattering class.
  • He felt the art exhibition was too pretentious, designed only for the chattering class.