These were qualities appreciated by contemporaries who considered themselves socially superior.

Mounted robbers were widely considered to be socially superior to footpads.

Setting prices on average equal to marginal cost can be done in more than one way, and some will be socially superior to others.

Even the would-be socially superior, the boastful, and the priggish may be found to be quite agreeable people once they have relaxed.

The person has difficulty maintaining jobs working with other people, difficulty maintaining relationships, and views others to be socially superior.

Headmen continued to feel socially superior to the regular police.

Like the socially superior literary and philosophical societies, they laid on a programme with much general culture rather than formal science courses.

They were accorded deference as a socially superior body.

As a rule, socially superior people feel morally superior as well.

Amber therefore credit their films collectively, rather than singling out individuals for roles in the production that are deemed socially superior by conventional society.