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
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.
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Siobhan Reid, Vogue, 28 May 2025
The film follows a single mother and her teenage son in a bourgeois house near the port of Beirut.
—Marta Balaga, Variety, 15 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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Siobhan Reid, Vogue, 28 May 2025
The film follows a single mother and her teenage son in a bourgeois house near the port of Beirut.
—Marta Balaga, Variety, 15 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
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But prorating three years of player profits down to 12 months, as UEFA’s rule does, reduces the immediate efficacy of successful trading in the market, the very strategy that poorer clubs increasingly rely on to climb the ladder.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
New York Times,
5 Sep. 2025
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Like most extended car warranty providers, CarShield excludes pre-existing conditions that existed before your warranty took effect, as well as damage resulting from poor maintenance, neglect or intentional abuse.—
Brian Sloan,
CNBC,
4 Sep. 2025
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The incumbent, Ted Garcia (Pedro Pascal), who lives in upper-middle-class comfort with his teen-age son, Eric (Matt Gomez Hidaka)—and without his ex-wife, who left him long ago—is intent on enforcing the state’s mask mandate.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
5 Sep. 2025
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The amount of inner tension that is required to hold together what is the most seemingly normal, regular middle-class existence with a working husband and two jobs and kids and a house and a crazy brother and your elderly mom, and, obviously, the skeleton in the proverbial closet.—
Mia Galuppo,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Bourgeois.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bourgeois. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.
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