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Word: bourgeois

Definition: middle class; selfishly materialistic; too interested in material possessions


Sentences Containing 'bourgeois'

It is like that Turkish phrase of Moliere's that so astonished the bourgeois gentleman by the number of things implied in its utterance.

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