bourgeois
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Why should anyone expect an antiwar broadside from a director whose idea of an antibourgeois, as enshrined in “The Graduate,” was a polite young fellow with excellent grades and a well-pressed jacket and tie?
From The New Yorker • Nov. 21, 2014
But it has always had champions as well: John Rockwell wrote in The New York Times in 2003 that “in the end ‘Klinghoffer’ is not anti-American or antibourgeois or anti-Semitic but prohuman.”
From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2014
Although the party is antibourgeois, most of its adherents come from middle-class intellectuals and small shopkeepers.
From Time Magazine Archive
The movie is, finally, quite dishonest: an antibourgeois tract that is far from forthright in admitting where it's coming from or what it's aiming at.
From Time Magazine Archive
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