Bumhood

You had Commies, capitalists (ruined, but adhering), even monarchists, in bumhood.

It had been depressingly easy to transform him to bumhood.

In La Chienne, Simon performs as Legrand, a well-starched civil servant and uppity colleague destined for a fall into the arms of the ruinous Lulu, and thence into bumhood, to the status of one scorned and reviled.