as in poor
belonging to the class of people of middle social or economic rank
The neighborhood was occupied primarily by bourgeois families.
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Recent Examples of bourgeois
Some transplants want to live in Nice’s Old Town in historic bourgeois buildings — a more expensive location for apartments that can be pricey to maintain.
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Marnie Hunter, CNN Money, 29 May 2025
Stay Here: In Bilbao’s bourgeois enclave of Neguri, Palacio Arriluce is a palace-turned-49-room hotel where Queen Anne and neo-Gothic flourishes evoke the charm of a grand English manor — complete with a croquet lawn overlooking the Biscayan coast.
—Siobhan Reid, Vogue, 28 May 2025
Sordi stars as Fabio, a bank clerk who has an utterly complacent attitude about the bourgeois comforts of his life.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 6 May 2025
The Rue Jacob is decorated in ugly bourgeois tones of: beige and brown, nineteenth-century paintings, Louis-Philippe furniture.
—Constance Debré, Harpers Magazine, 30 Apr. 2025
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Marnie Hunter, CNN Money, 29 May 2025
Stay Here: In Bilbao’s bourgeois enclave of Neguri, Palacio Arriluce is a palace-turned-49-room hotel where Queen Anne and neo-Gothic flourishes evoke the charm of a grand English manor — complete with a croquet lawn overlooking the Biscayan coast.
—Siobhan Reid, Vogue, 28 May 2025
Sordi stars as Fabio, a bank clerk who has an utterly complacent attitude about the bourgeois comforts of his life.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 6 May 2025
The Rue Jacob is decorated in ugly bourgeois tones of: beige and brown, nineteenth-century paintings, Louis-Philippe furniture.
—Constance Debré, Harpers Magazine, 30 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for bourgeois
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bourgeois
Adjective
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Similar protests occurred in Brazil over steep living costs and poor healthcare and education ahead of the country hosting the 2014 World Cup tournament.—
Connor Greene,
Time,
2 Oct. 2025
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Over time, dysfunctional breathing reinforces poor posture and scapular instability.—
Dana Santas,
CNN Money,
2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The first two seasons of The Bear were simultaneously very funny and also earned their panic-attack-inducing tension by grounding the characters and story in the dysfunctions of a middle-class family in Chicago.—
Andrew Bernard,
The Washington Examiner,
3 Oct. 2025
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Elsewhere in the talk, Altschuler recalled bonding with King of the Hill co-creator Mike Judge over their middle-class background.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Bourgeois.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bourgeois. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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