Sample Sentences for
bourgeois
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    Her revolt against bourgeois values is a revolt against her parents.
    bourgeois = typical of the middle class
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    I can assure you, I'm not so set on a bourgeois life as Mother and Margot.  (source)
    bourgeois = typical middle class
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    ...my suitcases, for instance. He kept saying they were too new and bourgeois.  (source)
    bourgeois = represented middle class values
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    She couldn't stand racists of either color and had great distaste for bourgeois blacks who sought to emulate rich whites by...  (source)
    bourgeois = typical of the middle class or their values and habits
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    I did ask her questions, and I let her talk the whole time. I learned a lot about "objectification," Native Americans, and the bourgeoisie.  (source)
    bourgeoisie = a member of the middle class  OR  (in Marxist theory) a member of the property-owing class
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    He found out that she had belonged to a profession whose most notorious member for our generation was Mrs. Warren, and having made a competence she now lived the quiet life of the bourgeoise.†  (source)
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    Two of these women were dressed like good ~bourgeoises~ of Paris.†  (source)
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    I remember her putting on her high-and-mighty free-woman stuff, saying you were still a slave to bourgeois morality and jealousy and you thought a woman you loved was a piece of private property you owned.  (source)
    bourgeois = typical of the middle class values
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    Lackeys of the bourgeoisie!  (source)
    bourgeoisie = members of the middle class
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    Spoken like a true bourgeoise.†  (source)
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    While chatting thus, the three worthy ~bourgeoises~ had arrived at the Place de Grève.†  (source)
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    Besides this, he was secretly and persistently attracted to the little bourgeois world, to those quiet and respectable homes with tidy gardens ... and their whole modest air of order and comfort.  (source)
    bourgeois = typical of the middle class
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    I find a third word: bourgeoisie, spelled bowrgeoisie.†  (source)
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