upper-crusty

comparative more upper-crusty · superlative most upper-crusty

1. informalOf or resembling the upper crust.
2. derogatoryinformalAristocratic; socially superior.

   "Mom, upper crusty?" I said. She just couldn't help but use ancient expressions.

   2016, Fred Shorten, Collective Choice, page 142

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   Bentleys, Rolls, Aston-Martins, Ferraris, even James Bond's Thunderbird. Very nice crispy, upper-crusty sensation, right in with the real boys.

   1963, Patrick Gordon Campbell, Brewing Up in the Basement, page 49

   Richie now earns $100 a day designing similar saunas for upper-crusty clients throughout Los Angeles.

   1972, Robin Green, Mindfuckers, A Source Book on the Rise of Acid Fascism in America, Including Material on Charles Manson, Mel Lyman, Victor Baranco, and Their Followers, page 311

   Seeing Rosalynn, Betty and Lady Bird, the politicians' wives, looking upper-crusty, and the many other women in Houston looking like fools, I concluded that I was viewing long-ago plays about the aristocracy and the jesters who performed and danced before them

   1977, Time, volume 110, page 4

   After the Hollywood fiasco, she spurned the grime of the police beat and the ordeal of the running trial story. She began to specialize in the social and the upper-crusty.

   1980, Lee Israel, Kilgallen, page 106