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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There’s plenty such wordplay in The Safe House, to the point that the movie can seem like a caricature of overeducated, perpetually growling Parisians shouting for social change, but too self-centered and comfortable in their bourgeois lifestyles to do anything drastic about it.
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Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2025
The social outcast lead is now a Black African (Mamadou Sidibé), action moves to Marseilles and the protagonist is taken in by a suave bourgeois member of the French-Arab community.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 21 Feb. 2025
My grandmother was a bourgeois German Jew, and my grandfather was the son of a stonemason in Sardinia.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025
And a lot of conservatism in general is about upholding bourgeois lifestyles, morality, identity, politics, and so forth.
—Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 21 Jan. 2025
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Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2025
The social outcast lead is now a Black African (Mamadou Sidibé), action moves to Marseilles and the protagonist is taken in by a suave bourgeois member of the French-Arab community.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 21 Feb. 2025
My grandmother was a bourgeois German Jew, and my grandfather was the son of a stonemason in Sardinia.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025
And a lot of conservatism in general is about upholding bourgeois lifestyles, morality, identity, politics, and so forth.
—Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 21 Jan. 2025
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“Bourgeois.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bourgeois. Accessed 20 Apr. 2025.
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