petty bourgeois
noun
: a member of the social class that is between the middle class and the lower class : a member of the lower middle class
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According to Schattenberg, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev was born in Kamenskoe, Ukraine, into a family that was neither entirely working class nor petty bourgeois.
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Yuri Slezkine, The New York Review of Books, 25 May 2022
Yuri Slezkine, The New York Review of Books, 25 May 2022
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“Petty bourgeois.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/petty%20bourgeois. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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