Lower middle class (shopkeepers and clerical staff etc.)
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 - . "
6 He thought that history had made of the Jew a petit bourgeois and a rootless creature; money had taken the place of ties & roots.
7 Fortunately the " petit bourgeois " gained his point, and the preservation of Belfort to France was the one drop of comfort in that sea of misery.
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