The man in the round hat had a lower-middle-class, City accent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

Mr. Gallagher now states that this is lower-middle-class American.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pornographers in Translation] Reference

His father was a linen draper, fairly lower-middle-class occupation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary] Reference

It stood among others of its kind in a lower-middle-class district of.    From Wordnik.com.  [What The Left Hand Was Doing] Reference

I glanced around at the lower-middle-class neighborhood as we walked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pop Goes The Weasel]

This time they were cruising a lower-middle-class, ethnic neighborhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Children Of The Night]

Obama is 47 and mixed-race, the product of a lower-middle-class background.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bob Burnett: Obama-McCain: Lincoln vs. Rambo] Reference

He pulled out his collar and again surveyed the lower-middle-class neighborhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fatal Care]

Next to the girl was Conrad Sauerabend, in Byzantine lower-middle-class clothes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Up The Line]

Mr. McDANIELS: Hollis, Queens was a lower-middle-class suburban neighborhood in Queens.    From Wordnik.com.  [RUN DMC Crashes Rock's Hall Of Fame, Again] Reference

The undecided voters we need to pursue now are largely working - and lower-middle-class people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Choice Of Biden Signals Vigorous Debate With GOP On Foreign Policy, But There Are Risks] Reference

This is good, though .... as I live in a lower-middle-class, mostly white, area in a red state.    From Wordnik.com.  [Final Marist Poll: Obama 52%, McCain 43%] Reference

I had never seen anything like it myself, coming from a just regular lower-middle-class street.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bono On Bono]

Between Toni and the rest of the commonplace lower-middle-class household was a great gulf fixed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Making of a Soul] Reference

ALEXANDER: Well, he was -- he grew up in Utah in sort of a middle-class, lower-middle-class family.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 10, 2008] Reference

We're asking some of our middle - class and lower-middle-class young people to be our armed forces.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 8, 2001] Reference

The aliens have displaced lower-middle-class Americans in the job market, decimating those American families.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anxiety in America: Citizens Ponder Their Fate] Reference

This man was a worker for Lilco - the Long Island power company - blue-collar, lower-middle-class background.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ninja]

LOURY: I think it was typical of working, lower-middle-class young people, young African-Americans in that city.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Anatomy of Racial Inequality] Reference

Most of his fans are plain, lonely girls from lower-middle-class homes, 'noted E.J. J.hn J.., of the New Yorker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sinatra The Man Behind the Myth]

They were heavy smokers and drinkers, hard livers, and they were kind of lower-middle-class, blue-collar workers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Populism and Elitism: Politics in the Age of Equality] Reference

Caps on out-of-pocket payments (co-pays and deductibles) and there again, lower-middle-class families should be okay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Printing: Maggie Mahar Untangles Health Care Legislation For OpEdNews] Reference

The modern epidemics of heart disease and diabetes fall disproportionately on poor and lower-middle-class communities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Merrill Goozner: Join the Health Corps!] Reference

Holder grew up in East Elmhurst, Queens, a lower-middle-class neighborhood in the shadow of New York's La Guardia Airport.    From Wordnik.com.  [Independent’s Day] Reference

You find writers like Wells and Bennett who have grown immensely rich and have yet preserved intact their lower-middle-class.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Road to Wigan Pier] Reference

Tony Robert Judt was born Jan. 2, 1948, in London and grew up in a lower-middle-class but intellectually vibrant environment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Judt, scholar of European history, dies at 62] Reference

Which is not to say that Mr. Insana – who grew up in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Buffalo – has not paid his dues.    From Wordnik.com.  [Backstage Bigwigs Ron Insana, Mike Ovitz Step Into the Spotlight] Reference

For me, the worst was her campaign of defamation against the working-class and lower-middle-class women her husband solicited.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary And Obama Battling Over Whether She'll Get Women's Vote] Reference

Jeffrey Holsclaw lived with his parents off Pico Boulevard in a respectable lower-middle-class neighborhood of black homeowners.    From Wordnik.com.  [LIGHT FINGERS] Reference

Unidentified Man #1: (Foreign language spoken) SUTHERLAND: They live in Mashtal, a lower-middle-class Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iraqi Reaction To Obama's Cairo Speech] Reference

Well, his problem is something that's been evident for some time now, his weakness with working-class, lower-middle-class white voters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hoosier Nominee?] Reference

True, but it would greatly help to push poor and lower-middle-class Americans away from getting food, health care and other necessities.    From Wordnik.com.  [MAIL CALL: POOR, HELPLESS AND CAUGHT IN HARM'S WA] Reference

Seguros Argos AS, for example, has enjoyed considerable success selling life insurance to lower-middle-class consumers at their workplaces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mexico Insurer Seeks Expansion] Reference

She looked as if she'd been slapped, as if someone in her lower-middle-class English family had caught her at this escort work in New York.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Friday]