bourgeois

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Recent Examples of bourgeois Every possible ill, every source of embarrassment to their bourgeois sensibilities, was blamed on the plant. Wade Davis, Rolling Stone, 6 Apr. 2025 The concepts minted in the early 1960s by the late French literary critic and philosopher René Girard explain the pathologies of the smartphone age as elegantly as Freud’s explained bourgeois neuroses at the turn of the last century. Matthew Gasda, airmail.news, 27 July 2024 Pleated skirts and argyle sweater vests, all in neutral shades of navy, taupe and traditional black, completed the bourgeois wardrobe. Rhonda Richford, WWD, 14 Mar. 2025 Ibsen saw an individual’s self-determination as a remedy for bourgeois hypocrisy, the first salvo of liberation. Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bourgeois
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Adjective
  • This tactic is sometimes used to justify letting an employee go under the guise of poor performance.
    Sho Dewan, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
  • The original doesn’t go that deeply into it, but this poor girl was essentially forced to be a teen mom at this time in her life when all of her friends would be graduating high school and dating and thinking about their futures.
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 24 May 2025
Adjective
  • Interviews with nearly two dozen residents of New York and New Jersey underscored the core argument of their Republican lawmakers: The value of their homes and the corresponding tax bills have quickly outpaced their middle-class salaries.
    Benjamin Oreskes, New York Times, 15 May 2025
  • For instance, while specific demographic data was not collected, all the children had predominantly white middle-class backgrounds, so the results reflect how typical children in northern England behave in such situations.
    Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 15 May 2025

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“Bourgeois.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bourgeois. Accessed 27 May. 2025.

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