Lower middle class (shopkeepers and clerical staff etc.)
1Hitler is portrayed as spiessig, a very German word that translates as narrow-minded or petit bourgeois.
2She's a model of petit bourgeois propriety.
3If there is one memory universally adored and respected throughout France, it is that of the " petit bourgeois."
4To think that you, a watchmaker and a petit bourgeois, should experience what many a saint has died without realizing!
5Suddenly, at the angle of a street, his coachman was stopped- arough -lookingman appeared at the door--"Descends,monpetit bourgeois-."
6He thought that history had made of the Jew a petit bourgeois and a rootless creature; money had taken the place of ties & roots.
7Fortunately the " petit bourgeois" gained his point, and the preservation of Belfort to France was the one drop of comfort in that sea of misery.
Translations for petit bourgeois