bourgeois

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He went to secondary school in the wealthy bourgeois 16th arrondissement of Paris, where he said he felt an uncomfortable outsider, and later attended the elite ENA administration school.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

Germans ignored it out of shame; Jews, living precariously in exile, rejected it as too assimilated and bourgeois.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

A born entertainer who had no ideology to sell or bourgeois morality to promote, he gravitated to theater as the most exhilarating form of debate.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2025

"They let you know if they're getting bored. It's not bourgeois polite and that appeals to me."

From BBC • Mar. 21, 2025

At first he only used to be kidding when he called my stuff bourgeois, and I didn't give a damn--it was sort of funny, in fact.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger