Superlative 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.”
Superlative 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.”
Superlative for of or relating to materialistic or capitalistic values
“British capitalism is a bourgeois democracy, and both bits of that label are important.”
Superlative for following the accepted or traditional customs
Superlative for neither highbrow or lowbrow, but somewhere in between
Superlative for having low social or economic rank
Superlative for indifferent or hostile to culture, the arts, or intellectual ideas
Superlative for relating to things (such as clothing) that are suggestive of poshness or class
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