Comparative for belonging to, or characteristic of, values and attitudes of the middle class
“Divorces were concentrated among middle-class and bourgeois women living in the towns of northern France.”
Comparative for having conventional or conservative values
“The more the peasant exerted himself in response to the government's plea for more production, the more he prospered and developed bourgeois attitudes.”
Comparative for of or relating to materialistic or capitalistic values
“British capitalism is a bourgeois democracy, and both bits of that label are important.”
Comparative for following the accepted or traditional customs
Comparative for neither highbrow or lowbrow, but somewhere in between
Comparative for having low social or economic rank
Comparative for indifferent or hostile to culture, the arts, or intellectual ideas
Comparative for relating to things (such as clothing) that are suggestive of poshness or class
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