bourgeois
Example Sentences
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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
A similar “dream of getting rid of the collector as an evil decadent/bourgeois/imperial looter” drove the “iconoclastic wave” that began in the U.S. after the death of George Floyd in 2020.
“Jesus Christ Superstar” reminds us that Lloyd Webber wasn’t always a symbol of the bourgeois establishment.
From Los Angeles Times
She’s all but doomed to be bourgeois and neurotic, as if a juvenile court has sentenced her to live in a New Yorker cartoon.
From Los Angeles Times
"They let you know if they're getting bored. It's not bourgeois polite and that appeals to me."
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
