petty bourgeois

noun

: a member of the social class that is between the middle class and the lower class : a member of the lower middle class

Examples of petty bourgeois in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
According to Schattenberg, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev was born in Kamenskoe, Ukraine, into a family that was neither entirely working class nor petty bourgeois. Yuri Slezkine, The New York Review of Books, 25 May 2022

Dictionary Entries Near petty bourgeois

Cite this Entry

“Petty bourgeois.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/petty%20bourgeois. Accessed 13 Dec. 2024.

Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!