petty bourgeois
Adjective
Meaning
petty bourgeois (not comparable)
Pertaining to the petty bourgeoisie.
petty-bourgeois (not comparable)
Alternative spelling of petty bourgeois
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.
I demand that the petty bourgeois Adolf Hitler be expelled from the Nazi Party.
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.
Harold Wilson is a petty bourgeois and will remain so in spirit even if they make him a Viscount.
The target of Tsvetaeva's satire is everything petty and petty bourgeois.
In a respectable petty bourgeois middle-class home, Playboy magazine and Fanny Hill might be present but would usually be kept out of sight.