as in poor
belonging to the class of people of middle social or economic rank
The neighborhood was occupied primarily by bourgeois families.
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Recent Examples of bourgeois
Every possible ill, every source of embarrassment to their bourgeois sensibilities, was blamed on the plant.
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Wade Davis, Rolling Stone, 6 Apr. 2025
The concepts minted in the early 1960s by the late French literary critic and philosopher René Girard explain the pathologies of the smartphone age as elegantly as Freud’s explained bourgeois neuroses at the turn of the last century.
—Matthew Gasda, airmail.news, 27 July 2024
Pleated skirts and argyle sweater vests, all in neutral shades of navy, taupe and traditional black, completed the bourgeois wardrobe.
—Rhonda Richford, WWD, 14 Mar. 2025
Ibsen saw an individual’s self-determination as a remedy for bourgeois hypocrisy, the first salvo of liberation.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2025
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Wade Davis, Rolling Stone, 6 Apr. 2025
The concepts minted in the early 1960s by the late French literary critic and philosopher René Girard explain the pathologies of the smartphone age as elegantly as Freud’s explained bourgeois neuroses at the turn of the last century.
—Matthew Gasda, airmail.news, 27 July 2024
Pleated skirts and argyle sweater vests, all in neutral shades of navy, taupe and traditional black, completed the bourgeois wardrobe.
—Rhonda Richford, WWD, 14 Mar. 2025
Ibsen saw an individual’s self-determination as a remedy for bourgeois hypocrisy, the first salvo of liberation.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for bourgeois
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bourgeois
Adjective
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This tactic is sometimes used to justify letting an employee go under the guise of poor performance.—
Sho Dewan,
Forbes.com,
24 May 2025
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The original doesn’t go that deeply into it, but this poor girl was essentially forced to be a teen mom at this time in her life when all of her friends would be graduating high school and dating and thinking about their futures.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
24 May 2025
Adjective
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As Stan crosses $30 million in annual recurring revenue and $300 million in gross merchandise value, Bartlett’s hands-on involvement signals a growing belief that the middle-class creator is the business story of the decade.—
Ian Shepherd,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2025
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California’s median home price in March was $884,000 — very tough if not impossible for many middle-class families.—
George Skelton,
Los Angeles Times,
26 May 2025
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“Bourgeois.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bourgeois. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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