(n.) The French middle class, particularly such as are concerned in, or dependent on, trade.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet the enemy of the bourgeoisie is impeccably bourgeois, and when I arrived for our meeting at a swanky hotel near the Arc de Triomphe, I found Haneke – just off a flight from Vienna, where he lives – tucking into a luxurious lunch in the restaurant.
(2) It made possible the birth of local bourgeoisies and states dedicated almost exclusively to the extraction of a surplus value from the peasantry through cash cropping.
(3) Maduro has insisted he will remain in power despite the efforts of a "parasitic bourgeoisie" to bleed the country dry.
(4) The capitalist class does very well out of it, which is why names like McAlpine, Wimpey and Barratt turn up so often among Conservative donors; but more interestingly, it also buys consent from a large proportion of the "petit bourgeoisie" who have an interest in the value of their only asset, their only piece of property – their house – getting higher and higher, however much that might be against their interest in other respects.
(5) Local authorities in Königsberg and Berlin and the bourgeoisie in the merchant city of Danzig, however, stressed the destructive consequences of the cordon system.
(6) In theory, there are initiatives – such as country-twanged theme songs and greater required alcohol consumption – that could incite soccer's urban, wine-sipping bourgeoisie to abandon their pretenses of supposedly Euro-centric civility.
(7) And because the bourgeoisie is the dominant class everywhere in the world, there is a kind of amnesia about what politics means to other people.
(8) I ask myself, how can we write about the dominated without using the language of the bourgeoisie, who have the advantages, or the language of my childhood, the language that called me a poor faggot, the language that was no friend of mine but a language of violence.
(9) There would be no Sistine Chapel without the Holy See; no Dutch old masters without the bourgeoisie and their desire for portraiture.
(10) It's similar to how the bourgeoisie took over from the aristocracy 200 years ago," he said.
(11) The fact that he sided with the workers and peasants, while I side with the bourgeoisie, was no obstacle to friendship.
(12) The middle class, of course: in the feedback loop of the bourgeoisie, their behaviour (breastfeeding, long maternity leave and well-planned paternity leave) begets better bonding, leads them to care more, which leads to even better behaviour.
(13) It warned that the party had been infiltrated by counter-revolutionary “revisionists” who were plotting to create a “dictatorship of the bourgeoisie”.
(14) But I said, ''Bourgeoisie, what sort of polytechnic expression is that?''
(15) Born in Athens in 1945, as Greece was poised to descend into civil war, Pikramenos is part of the country's old bourgeoisie and is described as "decent and well-mannered".
(16) The majority of today's nurses have followed a different course starting from petty bourgeoisie origins in towns and moving laterally through provincial bureaucratic channels.
(17) 3.03pm GMT Labour's John McDonnell points to the Guardian's Michael White, who is sitting at the press bench, and says he wants to drag him off to the Tower for being a running dog of the bourgeoisie – but not for treason.
(18) Marx and Engels’s revolutionary summons to the working classes details the nature of the class struggles between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, and the problems with capitalism.
(19) The prevalence of low birth weight according to social class was seen to be lower in the bourgeoisie classes (ranging from 2.8% to 3.9%) and higher in working classes (from 7% up to 9.5%).
(20) Photograph: Shutterstock The immediate neighbourhood around the canal is now so thoroughly hipsterised that Maigret, finely attuned to the distinctions between petite and haute bourgeoisie, would probably have to quickly down a few strong marcs before he could process the idea of wealthy young Parisians deliberately embracing, en masse, an area that was once so working class.
Snobby
Definition:
(a.) Snobbish.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sally’s transformation from snobby busybody to the knicker factory’s answer to Hillary Clinton is now complete and she always has one eye on boosting her political profile.
(2) Quite when the word "hipster" stopped denoting muso snobs in peculiar jeans and instead started referring to people who get snobby about coffee beans and beer hops, drink cocktails out of jam jars and dress as though they are pioneers from the outback even though they actually live in Brooklyn or Homerton, I really could not say.
(3) This usually happens for snobby reasons (basically, the mother's name packs more punch).
(4) Trierweiler, too, disliked living in the Elysée, surrounded by “snobby” advisers who “feel themselves very superior” and to whom “betrayal is seen as a virtue”.
(5) Tour guide Inigo from the brilliantly informal Go Local explained that the city is often thought snobby by inhabitants of Bilbao and Victoria, its two big neighbours.
(6) All this nonsense from very snobby Tories that we should not dominate the campaign and I should go on holiday for six months – forget it!
(7) Well handled.” Trump was later to claim that he found the presidential attention flattering, but a follow-up roast by the night’s professional comedian Seth Meyers rankled visibly and arguably set the tone for an 2016 election cycle driven by hatred of a snobby metropolitan elite holding its nose at America.
(8) Part-time professional skateboarder Jon Tolley and DJ Mike Smith became its owners, keen to change the snobbiness that surrounded record store culture – as other local businesses folded around them.
(9) José Ignacio may be low key and discreet, but it's relentlessly and shamelessly snobby.
(10) In that way, I would say that being smart or cynical or knowing or any of the things that I might think about myself in a snobby way and think Victoria Beck- ham isn't - are entirely useless.
(11) "At the time, I was a bit snobby about those kind of shows," he admits.
(12) Another piece of Heseltine folklore is a fabulously snobby comment recorded by the late political diarist Alan Clark: "The trouble with Michael is that he had to buy his own furniture."
(13) I know that sounds snobby – maybe it is – but we've been to university, we've both worked our backsides off, and we're not seeming to get the rewards for it.
(14) The snobby tone of the coverage, in fact, was much like the underlying spirit of the episode itself.
(15) For decades, the famously snobby Baron Michael Jopling lorded it over Westmorland – he was the aristocrat who once dismissed the then deputy prime minister Michael Heseltine, an upwardly mobile commoner, by saying: “The trouble with Michael is that he had to buy all his furniture.” Currently, Rory Stewart, ex-governor of two Iraq provinces, is installed in a cottage in Penrith and the Borders for the Conservatives, and down in the South Lakes the irrepressible Tim Farron, president of the Lib Dems, is putting a brave face on it all.
(16) To call out voters for falling for such damagingly racist and sexist messages is viewed by politicians as a vote-killer and dangerously snobby by the media, as though working-class people are precious toddlers who must be humoured and can’t possibly be held responsible for any flawed thinking.
(17) Therefore his supporters say that all criticism of him comes from a snobby media.
(18) He changed American attitudes – there are those who say he made Americans almost as snobby as the British or Europeans.” McDowell says he does not know if he agrees, “but certainly he has been an immense force”.
(19) Which is why, again – back to X Factor – why there is that slightly manic quality about those kids, and again why I'm sympathetic when people are so snobby about them.
(20) "There wasn't any snobbiness, like: 'That's not a real score.'