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
Isabella Cosse writes that Quino was attacked both by the left (for being too bourgeois to offer a real critique of the political repression) and by the right (for being too friendly to subversive groups).
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Daniel Alarcón, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
Domesticity presented an existential challenge to the Communist war on bourgeois weakness and materialism.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 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
Things are no longer like that in bourgeois society.
—Walter Benjamin, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
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Daniel Alarcón, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
Domesticity presented an existential challenge to the Communist war on bourgeois weakness and materialism.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 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
Things are no longer like that in bourgeois society.
—Walter Benjamin, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bourgeois
Adjective
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Porter has been a lead creator before, but that was on cellar-dwelling Houston Rockets squads that became a breeding ground for poor habits.—
Fred Katz,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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Young people want better governance and are fed up with suffering from poor services and economies while their leaders get rich around them and inequality grows.—
Elizabeth Shackelford,
Twin Cities,
16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Completed in 1957 as a private residence and currently owned by the Currier Museum of Art, the home is just one of seven Usonian Automatic houses built by Wright and embodies his ambition to design affordable, high-quality housing for middle-class Americans.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
17 Oct. 2025
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Ephron gives Rachel, the character modeled after herself, a handful of upper middle-class neuroses and places her in group therapy.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Oct. 2025
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“Bourgeois.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bourgeois. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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