the bourgeoisie

noun

: the middle class of society : the social class of skilled workers, business and professional people, and government officials

Examples of the bourgeoisie in a Sentence

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French absorption painting came to seem as phony as the bourgeoisie itself, another product offering bottled AuthenticityTM. —Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2023

Both her brushstroke and figures resemble the caricatures of Honoré Daumier, a political cartoonist who skewered the bourgeoisie in 19th-century France. —Kriston Capps, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023

And just the unease of the best people in the bourgeoisie. —Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2023

Karl Marx once said that the bourgeoisie produces its own gravediggers. —Mohammad Ali Kadivar, Foreign Affairs, 4 Dec. 2019

Like many an archenemy of the bourgeoisie, Jünger came from a thoroughly bourgeois background. —Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023

For one thing, the older, restrictive model of literacy as an elite prerogative proved to be tenacious, even as, in early modern Europe, reading spread among the bourgeoisie, and then further down the social ladder. —A.o. Scott, New York Times, 21 June 2023

This is not Dubai or Tokyo, but Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, where a socialist revolution once promised equality and an end to the bourgeoisie. —Frances Robles Adriana Loureiro Fernandez, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023

Or, potentially, one one-thousandth of the price of a train ticket out of town when the bourgeoisie starts shooting. —Ginny Hogan, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2023