bourgeois
Example Sentences
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The scenic decor and costumes situate us in the late 19th century of Ibsen’s bourgeois Norway.
From Los Angeles Times
Yurlady comes from a poor family, several generations stuffed into a single small apartment, and the divisions between her and the more bourgeois creative class aren’t melted away by sheer Wordsworthian magic.
The son of wealthy Venezuelan Marxists, Ramírez quaffed champagne and chased women like the most sybaritic of bourgeois youth.
Germans ignored it out of shame; Jews, living precariously in exile, rejected it as too assimilated and bourgeois.
She married at 18 years old, leaving her bourgeois family home in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, where she attended a private Catholic school.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
