bourgeois
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7.5
- adjective
- /bʊrˈʒwɑː/
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burgués
- Her family embodies typical bourgeois values, focusing on material success and social status.
- bourgeois society
- bourgeois culture
- bourgeois way of life
I was going to be a stolid bourgeois lawyer.
- I was going to be a stolid bourgeois lawyer.
- They were raised in a very sort of conventional, you know, bourgeois family.
- It's Monday, starting the week in such a bourgeois way.
- It was like from the most working class town in all of England playing the most aristocratic, bourgeois wanky sport that you can think of.
- That is, it's not just that you're not free if you are subject to a false consciousness and you subscribe to a bourgeois view of the good life.
- They were bourgeois, they were funny, and they were kind of useless and kind of preppy.
- And this is, I don't know, it's so it's such a bourgeois, luxurious way to to do something catastrophic.
- And then, you know, but the, you know, the nice bourgeois townspeople, they they have no idea just how, how bad things actually are.
- They, they went around public parks in big cities in China, tearing out flowers out of because beauty was regarded as bourgeois.
- Do you share my bourgeois values, my belief in patriotism and hard work, self-discipline, deferred gratification?
- Let's start with the chic and bourgeois hat among all.
- Bougie adjective or noun derived from bourgeois French refers to anyone aspiring to be higher class than one actually is.
- It's this bourgeois speaking down from on high, sort of like wanky aristocrat complaint about a world that you really shouldn't.
Examples
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Her growing awareness of her sexuality began to interfere with the bourgeois values implicit in her medical studies.
Academic text (2012) -
There you go, hiding behind a smoke screen of bourgeois clichés.
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So what a, you know what a bourgeois problem that is.
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Normal people used to hate bourgeois and even today bourgeois is quite a negative word to say.
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Marriage is a bourgeois convention...
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So obvious, so bourgeois, so boring.
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It was not a classic bourgeois family.
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They were raised in a very sort of conventional, you know, bourgeois family.
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The expansion of pet keeping in bourgeois households contributed to the popularity of the genre as an independent category.
Academic text (2015) -
We are warmly greeted as the first bourgeois intellectuals to visit Vietnam this year.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
201
3.2
Of people or families with a moderate income and some education
23
6.1
Liking money and things more than ideas or feelings
Antonyms
Compounds
- Slur
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9.6
A person from the lower middle class who cares about respect and having nice things
A middle-class way of living that values comfort, being respected, and material things
How Bourgeois
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bourgeois comes from bourg 'town', where people often had steady jobs, shops, and a more comfortable life, so bourgeois describes middle-class tastes that value comfort and possessions.