left behind
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.12 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
noun
A usually socially conservative member of the working class whose income is stagnating or falling in purchasing power.
Example Sentences
- "For the Left Behinds, Kennedy was evoking the most traditional values: patriotism, discipline, sacrifice for the common welfare."
- "The New Elite and the Left Behinds are not necessarily synonymous with other pairs in confrontation: liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, upper-middle class and lower-middle class."
- "Two major political issues originally split the New Elite from the Left Behinds: the civil rights movement and the peace movement arising out of the Vietnam War."