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US
/ˈəpwɝdɫi/
]
[ UK /ˈʌpwədli/ ]
[ UK /ˈʌpwədli/ ]
ADVERB
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spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position
upwardly mobile
upwardly mobile
look up!
prices soared upwards
the fragments flew upwards
the music surged up
How To Use upwardly In A Sentence
- A great deal of the nudge-nudge wink-wink routine by the young upwardly mobile male executives was the usual response to her presence.
- Today, it is the city of young and upwardly mobile techies who enrich the local economy.
- They are the first to find the locations that are upwardly mobile and have that certain swagger. Times, Sunday Times
- It relates to the specific context of his family during its generational shift away from manual labor into the upwardly mobile profession of painting.
- Even those of us who have other labels which make us pitchforks-and-torches targets -- dykes, fags, Jews, crips, poor and not upwardly mobile -- have had a jolt, seeing how much crazy is pouring from the seams. Archive 2009-09-01
- upwardly mobile
- It seems that upwardly mobile social climbers find the snob appeal of double-barrelled names irresistible.
- Amiri Baraka is only exaggerating a bit when he calls Lee ‘the quintessential buppie, almost the spirit of the young, upwardly mobile, Black, petit bourgeois professional’.
- He will be spared the embarrassment of having to present upwardly revised borrowing forecasts and lower growth projections. Times, Sunday Times
- Conforming to the more rigid traditions such as locking up women is a privilege only the upwardly mobile can afford.
