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petty bourgeois

petty bourgeois adjective: pertaining to the petty bourgeoisie.

Adjective

petty bourgeois (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to the petty bourgeoisie.

Noun

petty bourgeois (usually uncountable, plural petty bourgeois)

  1. (usually) An individual member of the petty bourgeoisie
    • Not every exasperated petty bourgeois could have become Hitler, but a particle of Hitler is lodged in every exasperated petty bourgeois.1933 December 1, Leon Trotsky, “Hitler’s National Socialism”, in The Yale Review, volume 23, number 2

Forms of petty bourgeois

pluralpetty bourgeois

Questions about petty bourgeois

What does petty bourgeois mean?
Petty bourgeois means pertaining to the petty bourgeoisie.
What part of speech is petty bourgeois?
Petty bourgeois can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near petty bourgeois in the dictionary

  1. petty
  2. petty apartheid
  3. petty average
  4. petty averages
  5. petty bag
  6. petty bourgeois
  7. petty bourgeoisie
  8. petty bourgeoisies
  9. petty cash
  10. petty crime
  11. petty crimes

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