Antonym: proletarian. Similar words: surgeon, urge, urgent, urgency, surgery, in charge of, forget about, hoist. Meaning: ['bʊəʒwɑː] n. 1. a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise 2. a member of the middle class. adj. 1. (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class 2. conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class 3. belonging to the middle class.
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61. And yet here was his father on the brink of suicide destroyed by a bourgeois system that he so admired.
62. The problem was the aristocratic aestheticism that the court nobility had bequeathed to Viennese bourgeois culture.
63. Three hundred years later his house was remodelled by another successful bourgeois - this time a wealthy Oxford brewer.
64. Increasingly, the socialists declared that they saw the republic as a Bourgeois stepping stone in a transition to a socialist regime.
65. Harold Steptoe, for all his bourgeois dreams, was fated to live in a rag and bone shop.
66. The process favors, is even indispensable for, the development of a national bourgeois state.
67. And the gap which separated them from the bourgeois world was wide - and unbridgeable.
68. In her view(http://Sentencedict.com), it was bourgeois women who were most oppressed by social definitions of female purity.
69. They never married because they believed that marriage was a bourgeois institution.
70. The Bourgeois Gentilhomme was one of many enterprises in Chelsea which survived entirely by selling antiques to each other.
71. All avant-garde movements were anti-bourgeois and yet all were assimilated by the structures of bourgeois society.
72. Marx distinguished two classes, bourgeois and proletarian, based on the ownership of the means of production.
73. The Giral government, consisting entirely as it did of bourgeois Republicans, was increasingly irrelevant to the new situation.
74. Was it not his father who had resolutely argued a case for the necessary acquisition of bourgeois culture in order to succeed?
75. One of the clearest indications of the trend of modern capitalism has been the erosion of bourgeois democracy on a world scale.
76. Thus his social psychology assumes the traditional bourgeois family structure as a norm.
77. For the man-about-town of the 1890s betraying concern at owing money to tradesmen was bourgeois, boring and absurd.
78. They contain elements of both worker and bourgeois class positions.
79. The gap between the knowledge of. the skilled worker and bourgeois technician has virtually disappeared or been greatly reduced.
80. This statement is often regarded as a curious relic of the values of bourgeois culture.
81. Other identifications - whether with feminism, the gay community, independent activist organisations - are derided as bourgeois and self-limiting.
82. But later on she did not seem to have any contact with feminist organisations, which the labour movement dismissed as bourgeois.
83. Tensions in the relationship between trade unions and the Labour Party arise from their different locations within bourgeois society.
84. But like the protagonists in a Bunuel film, the Ballards are very bourgeois thrill-seekers.
85. Britain had at last experienced the long-awaited, long-delayed bourgeois revolution.
86. Non-classical literature is an unpleasant, disquieting literature which refuses to allow the sophisms of bourgeois complacency to go unchallenged.
87. Amateurism provided a bridge between the old world of aristocratic values and the new one of bourgeois exertion and competitiveness.
88. Financial crisis made many petty bourgeois become grass roots.
89. Petty - bourgeois fanaticism can be good for you.
90. His privileged bourgeois family insisted on a good education.
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