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"unobtrusive", "yielding", "quiet", "reserved", "retiring" ], "antonyms":[ "humble", "lowly", "modest", "unarrogant", "unpretentious" ] }, "type":[ "adjective" ] }, "upper class":{ "of high birth, rank, or station":{ "examples":[ "upper-class boys who had an entrenched sense of entitlement" ], "synonyms":[ "aristocratic", "blue-blooded", "genteel", "gentle", "grand", "great", "highborn", "highbred", "noble", "patrician", "silk-stocking", "upper-crust", "wellborn" ], "near synonyms":[ "high", "lofty", "superior", "elevated", "ennobled", "exalted", "gentlemanly", "kingly", "knightly", "ladylike", "lordly", "princely", "queenly", "regal", "royal", "high-level", "senior" ], "near antonyms":[ "inferior", "knavish", "bastard", "illegitimate", "ordinary", "plain", "abased", "degraded", "junior", "subordinate" ], "antonyms":[ "baseborn", "common", "humble", "ignoble", "low", "lower-class", "lowly", "mean", "nonaristocratic", "plebeian", "ungenteel" ] }, "the highest class in a society":{ 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"cresting", "scaling", "surmounting", "topping", "canting", "inclining", "leaning", "listing", "reclining", "slanting", "sloping", "tilting", "tipping" ], "near antonyms":[ "diving", "nose-diving", "plummeting", "sinking", "sliding" ], "antonyms":[ "declining", "descending", "dipping", "dropping", "falling (off)", "plunging" ] }, "type":[ "verb" ] }, "uppercut":{ "as in roundhouse , kick":{ "examples":[], "synonyms":[], "near synonyms":[ "body blow", "hand", "kick", "knee", "left", "one-two", "rabbit punch", "right", "right-hander", "roundhouse", "shiver", "sidewinder", "sucker punch", "swing", "counter", "counterblow", "counterpunch", "counterstroke", "cruncher", "kayo", "knockdown", "knockout", "KO", "bang", "bash", "bat", "beat", "belt", "biff", "blow", "bop", "box", "buffet", "bust", "chop", "clap", "clip", "clout", "crack", "cuff", "dab", "douse", "fillip", "hack", "haymaker", "hit", "hook", "knock", "larrup", "lash", "lick", "pelt", "pick", "plump", "poke", "pound", "punch", "rap", "slam", "slap", "slug", "smack", "smash", "sock", "spank", "stinger", "stripe", "stroke", "swat", "swipe", "switch", "thud", "thump", "thwack", "wallop", "welt", "whack", "wham", "whop", "whap", "bastinado", "bastinade", "battering", "beating", "bludgeoning", "clobbering", "cudgeling", "cudgelling", "drubbing", "hammering", "lambasting", "licking", "pasting", "pounding", "pummeling", "pummelling", "thrashing", "flogging", "walloping", "whip", "whipping" ], "near antonyms":[], "antonyms":[] }, "type":[ "noun" ] }, "upper crusts":{ "individuals carefully selected as being the best of a class":{ "examples":[ "the conference was a gathering of the upper crust of the computer programming industry" ], "synonyms":[ "A-lists", "aristocracies", "best", "choices", "corps d'elite", "creams", "cr\u00e8me de la cr\u00e8me", "elect", "elites", "fat", "flowers", "illuminati", "picks", "pinks", "prides", "priesthoods", "primes", "royalties" ], "near synonyms":[ "establishments", "gentries", 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