Word info Synonyms

petty bourgeois

Adjective

Meaning

petty bourgeois (not comparable)

Pertaining to the petty bourgeoisie.

petty-bourgeois (not comparable)

Alternative spelling of petty bourgeois

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Alternative names

petty-bourgeois

Synonyms

Examples

There is nothing more vapid than a philistine petty bourgeois existence with its farthings, victuals, vacuous conversations, and useless conventional virtue. Anton Chekhov

I demand that the petty bourgeois Adolf Hitler be expelled from the Nazi Party. Joseph Goebbels

Like every 'intellectual', a philosophy teacher is a petty bourgeois. When he opens his mouth, it is petty-bourgeois ideology that speaks: its resources and ruses are infinite. Louis Althusser

Harold Wilson is a petty bourgeois and will remain so in spirit even if they make him a Viscount. Neil Kinnock

The target of Tsvetaeva's satire is everything petty and petty bourgeois. Source: Internet

In a respectable petty bourgeois middle-class home, Playboy magazine and Fanny Hill might be present but would usually be kept out of sight. Source: Internet

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