chattering class

American

noun

well-educated members of the upper-middle or upper class who freely express especially liberal opinions or judgments on current issues and events.

Etymology

Origin of chattering class

First recorded in 1980–85

Example Sentences

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It was the topic du jour among the chattering class, with notable voices like the women of the “The View,” Chelsea Handler and a former “Real Housewife of Beverly Hills” weighing in.

From The Wall Street Journal

South: It’s not just the chattering class.

From Los Angeles Times

“This ascent has confounded most financial analysts and the chattering class, whose frames of reference did not quite anticipate a company of this size and scale growing at such a ferocious and unrelenting rate,” he said.

From Barron's

The "Call Her Daddy" conversation was not the contentious tête-à-tête the chattering class has come to expect after decades of cable news bloviating somehow came to represent meaningful political coverage.

From Salon

Nonetheless, “the chattering class of Pyongyang certainly will, from one source or another” know the Olympic results as they come in, said John Everard, the UK’s ambassador to North Korea from 2006 to 2008.

From BBC

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