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
"They let you know if they're getting bored. It's not bourgeois polite and that appeals to me."
From BBC • Mar. 21, 2025
“The peasant meal is in the middle of the day, surrounded by work,” writes John Berger in his 1976 essay “The Eaters and the Eaten,” a comparison of bourgeois and peasant modes of consumption.
From Slate • Mar. 15, 2025
I went on to my room and read the assigned pages of Le bourgeois gentilhomme.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
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