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bourgeois

adjective as in materialistic, middle class

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This book is nearly encyclopedic in its accounting of the pleasures of modern bourgeois American life.

From Vox

Bourgeois said that the actions taken to limit the reach of the term “Stop the Steal” in the election’s immediate aftermath were temporary.

Renoir, Matisse, Picasso and Cézanne were considered formalistic and bourgeois artists.

At the same time, he was drawn to the work of future Nobel laureate André Gide, who rebelled against bourgeois conventions and wrote of sensual fulfillment.

Gurugram, a bustling tech and finance center on the outskirts of New Delhi, encapsulates the fast-paced capitalism and bourgeois aspirations of a new town.

From Quartz

Part of that bourgeois dream involved white people getting to live out their fantasies of having black servants.

Many historians have leveled criticism at the Code, arguing that it was too conservative and supportive of the bourgeois.

Diaspora always meant tragedy; you think you can be a good German bourgeois, but that way lie the death camps.

I confess to being surprised at the reaction to yesterday's article on the boring, bourgeois future of gay marriage.

That's right, I said it: this is a landmark victory for the forces of staid, bourgeois sexual morality.

Despite his own grief, he is sorry for the young man; nor is he convinced in his shrewd bourgeois mind of the latter's guilt.

You will see a family of rich bourgeois enter, just in from the country, for the Montparnasse station is opposite.

To his bourgeois mind, for all his imitation of the Chicago martyr, my words must have sounded knavish.

It outrages me that even a bourgeois should so meanly misjudge the aspirations of an active revolutionist.

He was somewhat inclined to sybaritism; not quite emancipated from the tendencies of his bourgeois youth.

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On this page you'll find 38 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to bourgeois, such as: materialistic, middle class, common, conservative, philistine, and square.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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