How do you use Bourgeois in a sentence? See 20 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like capitalist or commoner, plus the exact meaning.
Bourgeois in a sentence
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Bourgeois meaning
- Of or relating to the middle class (often derogatory), and their presumed overly conventional, conservative, and materialistic values.
- Of or relating to the bourgeoisie, the third estate of the French Ancien Regime.
- Of or relating to the capitalist class, (usually derogatory) the capitalist exploitation of the proletariat.
Synonyms of Bourgeois
Example sentences (20)
Often biographical, Bourgeois’s work explores themes including childhood, family, motherhood, gender, and identity.
All this brings out the sheer hypocrisy of Macron, the French ruling class and the bourgeois media internationally.
At presumably higher elevations of culture, the air was always thick with Christian piety and bourgeois sentiment.
But she was already in full command of the arsenal of bourgeois bigotries that would be a hallmark of her later self.
The crisis of capitalism has led to a questioning of all pillars of bourgeois society, including the judiciary.
It concerns a bourgeois couple driving through the French countryside to retrieve an inheritance from a dying relative.
In the mid-1540s Louis Bourgeois joined John Calvin in Geneva where together they compiled the Geneva Psalter.
Its rebellious appeal lay in its challenge to many of the dominant morals, values, and institutions of bourgeois society.
If our college friends at Presidency found out we had participated in such a bourgeois affair, we would hear no end of it.
Then, Wauquiez, Le Pen and the other bourgeois demagogues would hesitate and try to hold back the movement.
In China, a revolutionary movement developed which saw the bourgeois nationalist Kuomintang come to power.
It is the most effective way of bucking bourgeois authority, by directly affecting a capitalist’s income.
Even bourgeois commentators are tearing their hair out at the reckless handling of the situation by the Skvernelis government.
It said that unlike “bourgeois parties”, the CPI(M) does not believe in giving reception to the accused.
Alfred Bourgeois, 55, is scheduled to be executed Dec. 11 at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind.
After Bourgeois left the position to join a convent in 1944, Matisse sometimes contacted her to request that she model for him.
With Stalin’s blessing, Lysenko designated genetics as a bourgeois pseudoscience based on idealism instead of Marxist materialism.
He said the senator’s case should not be treated in isolation by the Senate and the bourgeois media.
How can poor people be surplus when any good bourgeois can find a use for them at a cheaper price?
Theophile Bourgeois IV, 41, inherited his charter fishing business after his father died in 2019.
Common combinations with bourgeois
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the bourgeois 29×
- of bourgeois 21×
- bourgeois and 11×
- bourgeois society 9×
- and bourgeois 6×
- as bourgeois 6×
- petty bourgeois 6×
- louise bourgeois 5×
- bourgeois family 5×
- bourgeois parties 5×
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