Bourgeois
adjective
Belonging to or characteristic of the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes.
He came from a bourgeois family and grew up with comfort and security.
noun
A person belonging to the middle class.
The factory was considered a threat to the peaceful life of the bourgeoisie.
adjective
Relating to or characteristic of a socially superior class of people with conservative tastes and lifestyles.
Their bourgeois lifestyle was complemented with expensive cars and large houses.
noun
A person who is perceived as being concerned with respectability and material values.
The character in the novel was a typical bourgeois, obsessed with wealth and status.
adjective
Belonging to or characteristic of the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes.
He came from a bourgeois family and grew up with comfort and security.
noun
A person belonging to the middle class.
The factory was considered a threat to the peaceful life of the bourgeoisie.
adjective
Relating to or characteristic of a socially superior class of people with conservative tastes and lifestyles.
Their bourgeois lifestyle was complemented with expensive cars and large houses.
noun
A person who is perceived as being concerned with respectability and material values.
The character in the novel was a typical bourgeois, obsessed with wealth and status.
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Material Focus
Used negatively to describe people overly focused on wealth and possessions.
Their bourgeois concerns reduced everything to profit margins.
Pro Tip 2/2Conventional Attitude
Indicates typical middle-class attitudes, avoiding anything deemed radical or unorthodox.
Their bourgeois mindset favored traditional family values.
Pro Tip 1/2Material Focus
Used negatively to describe people overly focused on wealth and possessions.
Their bourgeois concerns reduced everything to profit margins.
Pro Tip 2/2Conventional Attitude
Indicates typical middle-class attitudes, avoiding anything deemed radical or unorthodox.
Their bourgeois mindset favored traditional family values.
Pro Tip 1/2Material Focus
Used negatively to describe people overly focused on wealth and possessions.
Their bourgeois concerns reduced everything to profit margins.
Pro Tip 2/2Conventional Attitude
Indicates typical middle-class attitudes, avoiding anything deemed radical or unorthodox.
Their bourgeois mindset favored traditional family values.
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History vs. Vladimir...
an incompetent bourgeois failure. He even launched another failed offensive in the war, where Russia had already lost so much, instead of ending it like the people wanted." "It was a constitutional social democratic government, the most progressive of its time. And it could have succeeded eventually
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Steven Pinker: Human...
which was considered bourgeois or tacky. And here's just one example. I mean, this is perhaps a representative example of the visual depiction of the female form in the 15th century; here is a representative example
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I Bought a Rain Forest,...
conservation is a bourgeois concept what we do is we create a huge amount of carbon and we expect poor people to look
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History vs. Vladimir...
an incompetent bourgeois failure. He even launched another failed offensive in the war, where Russia had already lost so much, instead of ending it like the people wanted." "It was a constitutional social democratic government, the most progressive of its time. And it could have succeeded eventually
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Steven Pinker: Human...
which was considered bourgeois or tacky. And here's just one example. I mean, this is perhaps a representative example of the visual depiction of the female form in the 15th century; here is a representative example
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I Bought a Rain Forest,...
conservation is a bourgeois concept what we do is we create a huge amount of carbon and we expect poor people to look
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J. G. Ballard
British Author
The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. It's a vast, sentimentalizing structure that reassures the reader, and at every point, offers the comfort of secure moral frameworks and recognizable characters.
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Clara Zetkin
German Politician
We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect.
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Aleksandar Hemon
Bosniak Writer
The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated person, with refined life goals and achievements.
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Tom Hodgkinson
British Writer
Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But have things improved since then? Arguably, they've got worse.
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Luca Guadagnino
Italian Director
I come from a petit bourgeois family, and I've always been drawn to artists and people who choose their own way of life instead of being chosen by the lives that people want for them.
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Keith Haring
American Artist
The public needs art - and it is the responsibility of a 'self-proclaimed artist' to realize that the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for a few and ignore the masses.
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Carla Bruni
Italian Musician
I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same thing every day.
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Tucker Carlson
American Journalist
When it comes to scaring the bourgeoisie into showing up at the polls, nothing works better than negative advertising.
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Buenaventura Durruti
Spanish Revolutionary
The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.
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Mark Ruffalo
American Actor
I live a bourgeois life.
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J. G. Ballard
British Author
The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. It's a vast, sentimentalizing structure that reassures the reader, and at every point, offers the comfort of secure moral frameworks and recognizable characters.
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Clara Zetkin
German Politician
We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect.
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Aleksandar Hemon
Bosniak Writer
The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated person, with refined life goals and achievements.
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Tom Hodgkinson
British Writer
Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But have things improved since then? Arguably, they've got worse.
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Luca Guadagnino
Italian Director
I come from a petit bourgeois family, and I've always been drawn to artists and people who choose their own way of life instead of being chosen by the lives that people want for them.
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Keith Haring
American Artist
The public needs art - and it is the responsibility of a 'self-proclaimed artist' to realize that the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for a few and ignore the masses.
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Carla Bruni
Italian Musician
I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same thing every day.
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Tucker Carlson
American Journalist
When it comes to scaring the bourgeoisie into showing up at the polls, nothing works better than negative advertising.
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Buenaventura Durruti
Spanish Revolutionary
The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.
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Mark Ruffalo
American Actor
I live a bourgeois life.
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