bourgeois
Example Sentences
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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
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.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
