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  • noun The state or quality of being classless.

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Examples

  • Ben, We understand you are an expert in classlessness.

    "The No Class Award" 2008

  • As for the question of Hitler's "classlessness," the description is evidently relative and has to be seen in terms of Germany's social stratification at the time.

    Springtime for Hitler Binion, Rudolph 1975

  • The only "classlessness" in our society is the behavior of the "chosen ones" when they think no one is looking.

    unknown title 2009

  • To talk of a “new class,” then, conjured up the unquestionable epistemology of class analysis, while simultaneously challenging the notional outcome: instead of the end of the state and classlessness, one was stuck with police states and a new class that, while eminently cooler than the Bolsheviks of yore, still exercised a dictatorship (of the not-proletariat) while skimming off the benefits of unequal power.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Telos Returns to ‘New Class’ Analysis and the Critique of the ‘Wholly-Administered Society” 2010

  • How to Lose Friends is a quite subtle exposé of New York society and how American claims to classlessness don't remotely accord with reality.

    Can Toby Young's free school succeed? 2011

  • Every once in a while, along comes a thread that just is too much temptation for the trolls to bear, and they rip off their paper-bag masks and reveal the true classlessness and vileness of their character.

    Think Progress » Woman Who Was Denied Insurance Due To Pre-Existing Condition Looking To Get Married For Health Care 2010

  • Every once in a while, along comes a thread that just is too much temptation for the trolls to bear, and they rip off their paper-bag masks and reveal the true classlessness and vileness of their character.

    Think Progress » Woman Who Was Denied Insurance Due To Pre-Existing Condition Looking To Get Married For Health Care 2010

  • On HuffPost Hill's scale of lame-duck classlessness, this falls somewhere between refusing to telephone one's opponent and throwing a rager in your hideaway office, thereby leaving the walls coated in a thin film of vomit and the floors padded with flattened Bud Light boxes, mud and unconscious interns.

    HUFFPOST HILL - Joe Barton's Guerrilla Campaign The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • On HuffPost Hill's scale of lame-duck classlessness, this falls somewhere between refusing to telephone one's opponent and throwing a rager in your hideaway office, thereby leaving the walls coated in a thin film of vomit and the floors padded with flattened Bud Light boxes, mud and unconscious interns.

    HUFFPOST HILL - Joe Barton's Guerrilla Campaign The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • On HuffPost Hill's scale of lame-duck classlessness, this falls somewhere between refusing to telephone one's opponent and throwing a rager in your hideaway office, thereby leaving the walls coated in a thin film of vomit and the floors padded with flattened Bud Light boxes, mud and unconscious interns.

    HUFFPOST HILL - Joe Barton's Guerrilla Campaign The Huffington Post News Team 2010

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