Lower middle class (shopkeepers and clerical staff etc.)
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Examples for "petit bourgeois "
Examples for "petit bourgeois "
1 Hitler is portrayed as spiessig, a very German word that translates as narrow-minded or petit bourgeois .
2 She's a model of petit bourgeois propriety.
3 If there is one memory universally adored and respected throughout France, it is that of the " petit bourgeois . "
4 To think that you, a watchmaker and a petit bourgeois , should experience what many a saint has died without realizing!
5 Suddenly, at the angle of a street, his coachman was stopped- arough -lookingman appeared at the door - - " Descends , mon petit bourgeois - . "
1 The petty bourgeoisie was represented, but not the great capitalists.
2 "The petty bourgeoisie , in order to defeat the workers, soldiers and peasants, would combine with the devil himself!" he said once.
1 The first sequence is set in and around Paris, among the children of the petite bourgeoisie .
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