bourgeois

[US]/ˈbʊəʒwɑː,ˌbʊəˈʒwɑː/
[UK]/ˌbʊrˈʒwɑː,ˈbʊrʒwɑː/
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Translation

adj. of or characteristic of the traditional middle class; secular, capitalist.

Phrases & Collocations

bourgeoisie

bourgeois mindset

bourgeois lifestyle

bourgeois values

bourgeois liberalization

petty bourgeois

Example Sentences

a critique of bourgeois ideology.

a kingdom of the petty-bourgeois intelligentsia

these views will shock the bourgeois critics.

the frail facade of petit bourgeois respectability.

a rich, bored, bourgeois family.

bourgeois society took for granted the sanctity of property.

longed to escape from their conventional, bourgeois lives.

the private tutor was a recognized subaltern part of the bourgeois family.

the simple dualities of his youthful Marxism: capitalism against socialism, bourgeois against prole.

In its social origins putschism is a combination of lumpen-proletarian and petty-bourgeois ideology.

Their starting point is bourgeois despotism, which in culture becomes the cultural despotism of the bourgeoisie.

Since opposition to bourgeois liberalization is a long-term task, we are not going to launce a political movement but to rely on education.

Aiming at bring into effect excruciation to defendant, bourgeois are incessant development and perfect, establish no additional punishment resulting from retrial procedure.

Until this decade, he shuddered at words like "dear", "honey" and "love", finding them bourgeois and vapidly unrealistic.

Real-world Examples

In the nineteenth century there they are, the bourgeois century.

Source: Yale University Open Course: European Civilization (Audio Version)

Even the bourgeois world of Paris at play had its shadowy side.

Source: BBC documentary "Civilization"

Most of it is about bourgeois culture.

Source: Yale University Open Course: European Civilization (Audio Version)

A lot of people think marriage is a bourgeois institution.

Source: the chair

In their paintings, the two artists showed the lives of Bourgeois women.

Source: Curious Muse

He'd grown to hate the stifling conventions of bourgeois society.

Source: BBC documentary "Civilization"

It's because of you, the petty bourgeois.

Source: Yale University Open Course: European Civilization (Audio Version)

In China at least, coffee is often associated with an exotic, well-to-do bourgeois lifestyle.

Source: 100 Most Popular Conversational Topics for Foreigners

That's a bourgeois thing to do, to make a will.

Source: Yale University Open Course: European Civilization (Audio Version)

The word " Bourgeois" does make me speak with the vocal fry: Bourgeois.

Source: Learn American pronunciation with Hadar.

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