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bourgeois

a member of the middle class (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class belonging to the middle class conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class a bourgeois mentality (= businessperson) a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise

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Row, you blasted bourgeois.
After all, I'm just a poor bourgeois.
A bourgeois.
They are offering me an honourable life in a bourgeois family.
I'm a real bourgeois.
The only way, for the bourgeois.
And I'm the civil servant? You bourgeois!
A bourgeois living room. Absolutely horrible.
You want so badly to be a bourgeois. You want to get married, with me even.
Don't be so bourgeois!
It's a symbol of bourgeois decadence and insecurity.
How sad having to play the bourgeois wife who doesn't understand.
The bourgeois sarcasm!
You still trying to pull bourgeois wool over our eyes.
The workings of the typical bourgeois mind.
You bourgeois!
And that makes me more decent than this petty bourgeois with his violet eyes, who tells you a pack of lies because he likes to go to bed with you.
It's particularly relevant for women protesting bourgeois decadence.
Sentimentalism is a bourgeois attitude unworthy of the proletarian spirit.
You believe in such bourgeois notions like matrimony?
You say that marriage is a bourgeois institution.
And indeed, when I asked him to marry me, he said he didn't recognize the validity of certain bourgeois ties.
This is the reasoning of a bourgeois anarchist.
You want so badly to be a bourgeois.
Now you have spoken like a good bourgeois, but not like an Emperor.
For example, look at the bourgeois women.
You'd like to make me to applaud this ugly bourgeois sentiment?
Besides, the idea of a peasant dining at their bourgeois table. exasperated them both.
Exhaustive medical bourgeois.
His folks were bourgeois.
Brignon was a bourgeois, very shy.
I have bourgeois soul.
Bourgeois.
A bourgeois government will take over the power.
I said all I had was scotch, that wine was an opiate for the proletariat and whisky was poison for the bourgeois.
God-damn-fuck. Bourgeois.
Honorable bourgeois. Good father.
She was mixing with the lower class, like a common bored bourgeois's wife.

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At the same time, with Monti's coalition failing to gain traction, reflecting the historically limited appeal of classic bourgeois parties in Italy, many observers are wondering what his role in the next government will be.
Imagine the scene: Bucharest, le petit Paris, a city of three million people with wide boulevards and grand bourgeois villas, stands now a city half in ruins.
Most likely he took as his standard of sufficiency the bourgeois rentier income of his day, which was about ten times that of the average worker.
This is a truly bourgeois revolution.
The anger there, fueled by misery and insufficient food, is popular, not bourgeois.
We might think, they argued, that what we read in The New York Times or Le Monde is objectively true, but everything that appears there is, in fact, a disguised form of propaganda for bourgeois class interests.
That same spring, demonstrators in Paris burned cars in opposition to the bourgeois lifestyle.
It is a fear that has echoed down through history ever since, from the Catholic Church cursing Gutenberg's movable type to the Victorian bourgeois complaining of the newly discovered freedom of the press.

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