bourgeoisie
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Part hobo, part insult comic, part performance artist, Diogenes flaunted his disregard for convention in ways that scandalized the bourgeoisie of Athens and, later, Corinth, after his banishment from Sinope became permanent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
"The Viennese bourgeoisie took them to cafes and shopping, and showed them the local monuments," he added.
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2025
Jonathan Parks-Ramage knows exactly what he’s doing in evoking bourgeoisie Clarissa Dalloway’s routine in the opening section of his new novel, “It’s Not the End of the World.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2025
Will this acrid-tongued, 69-year-old multimillionaire, a child of the rural Catholic haute bourgeoisie, turn out to be a latter-day Churchill, standing astride the tides of history?
From Salon ● Mar. 2, 2025
I find a third word: bourgeoisie, spelled bowrgeoisie.
From "Legend" by Marie Lu
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At this hour, you are the only one who can speak to all alike—to the common people and to the bourgeoisies of the nations.
From The Forerunners by Rolland, Romain
The city bourgeoisies that had previously resisted the government, now supported it in this one particular, persecution of the Anabaptists.
From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved
The protectionism and the exclusiveness of the bourgeoisies are brought to an end.
From The Stages in the Social History of Capitalism by Pirenne, Henri
One might wonder indeed if Anarchism, an essentially bourgeois doctrine, had not found adepts among the French bourgeoisie, the most blasée of all bourgeoisies.
From Anarchism and Socialism by Plekhanov, Georgii Valentinovich
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