The term "bourgeois" can be used as an insult by both the lower and the upper classes.
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Bourgeois
/ˈbɔːʒ.wɑː/
Synonyms for "bourgeois" (165 found)
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commonplacecompulsivecompulsive characterconcordantconformerconformistconventionalconventionalistcorrespondingepiciereverymanexurbaniteformalistformalisticfree enterprisefree-enterprisegardengarden varietygarden-varietygeneral
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greedygroundlingguttersnipeharmonioushigh-camphomelyhomespunhooliganill-bred fellowin accordin keepingin linein stepindividualisticjohn smithkitschykosherlittle fellowlittle manloobyloutlow fellowlow-campman in the streetmaterialisticmethodologist
Adjective(2 words)
Noun(2 words)
Related words (82)
middle americanmiddle-classmiddle-class typemodel childmoney-hungrymuckerno great shakesnonsocialisticnormalnouveau richeoppidanordinaryorganization manorthodoxparrotparvenupeasantpedantpedanticperfectionist
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philistineplasticplastic personplebplebeianpoppopularprecisianprecisianistprecisianisticprivate-enterpriseproletarianpropertiedpublicregularribaldroturierroughroughneckrowdyruffianrun-of-minerun-of-the-millsheepsquarestraightstuffysuburbansuburbaniteteenyboppertowneetownertownfolktownfolkstownsmantownspeopletownswomantraditionalisttrimmerunexceptionalunnoteworthyunremarkableunspectacularupstartuptighturbaniteusualvernacularvillagervillageressvulgarianvulgaristworking classworking-classyes manyes-manyokel
Noun(3 words)
Adjective(1 words)
thermidorian reaction
Determiner(1 words)
third estate
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12 entriesbourge ois tastebourgeois aestheticsbourgeois culturebourgeois economicsbourgeois moralitybourgeois politicsbourgeois respectabilitybourgeois valuesbusinesspersonfinancierindustrialistmerchant
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9 entriesbourgeois aestheticsbourgeois classbourgeois culturebourgeois ideologybourgeois moralitybourgeois politicsbourgeois respectabilitybourgeois societybourgeois values
Inflections
2 entriesmore bourgeoismost bourgeois
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3 entriesSample sentences
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Now that idealistic obscurantism has become a major "theoretical" means for the warmongers, Lenin's critique of the bourgeois philosophy of the early twentieth century has acquired particular relevance.
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She comes from a bourgeois background.
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The theatrical world of Shakespeare is just as infinitely varied as he believed reality to be; he excluded nothing whatsoever that occurred in human nature and bourgeois society.
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