How to Use bourgeois in a Sentence

bourgeois

1 of 2 adjective

• Some of it was wrapped up with the idea that eating out is a bourgeois indulgence.
  — New York Times, 19 May 2021
• The bourgeois runway trend made an impact too, as did pant suits.
  — Brooke Bobb, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2019
• The Blue House, with its carved ringlets and ornate rooms, stuck out as a symbol of bourgeois decadence.
  — Inna Lazareva, Town & Country, 9 Mar. 2022
• The Paper Palace has long since been sold (and reclad in bourgeois shingles).
  — Penelope Green, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2022
• Nicolas Sarkozy had Neuilly-sur-Seine, one of the most bourgeois suburbs of Paris.
  — Jean-Marie Pottier, Slate Magazine, 9 May 2017
• But her rebelling was to be even more bourgeois than our parents were.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2022
• My boyfriend didn’t want to go in – too expensive, too bourgeois.
  — Margaret Wappler, Orange County Register, 27 July 2019
• As the turmoil grows, the stalwarts of Marina's bourgeois world cling to the hope that their old world will be restored.
  — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Dec. 2017
• What could these bourgeois housewives know about pleasing a man?
  — Gail Sheehy, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Sep. 2017
• Xi doesn’t even play golf, which was banned for years in China as a bourgeois indulgence.
  — Bess Levin, The Hive, 5 Apr. 2017
• The satire of bourgeois affluence can seem glib and overextended.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2018
• Guilt over his bourgeois lifestyle, his out-of-touchness with the common people.
  — Vulture, 3 Sep. 2022
• There is in the play this sort of cri de coeur from Priestly that's condemning bourgeois greed and narcissism.
  — Adam Green, Vogue, 7 Sep. 2017
• Yet the photographs are of this bourgeois woman who’s well-dressed and who’s sitting with her knitting.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Feb. 2024
• If the trappings of a bourgeois life make up one of the central threads of A Doll’s House, the limitations imposed on women make up the other.
  — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 10 Mar. 2023
• Hope and faith and justice and courage: these are all fostered by bourgeois capitalism.
  — Patrick J. Deneen, Harper’s Magazine , 5 Jan. 2023
• Thompson plays Irene, a bourgeois Black woman in 1920s Harlem who learns her childhood friend is living as a white lady.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2021
• Think pencil skirts and silk blouses, bourgeois tailoring, and, of course, the famous Burberry trench.
  — Brooke Bobb, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2018
• Your books and movies have a consistent theme: a hatred for bourgeois conformity.
  — Claudia Dreifus, The New York Review of Books, 29 Apr. 2021
• Red Guards took away his family’s piano, damning it as a bourgeois bauble.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 16 Nov. 2021
• Manet’s refusal to play along with the strictures of academic art matches his refusal to cater to France’s bourgeois fantasies.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2023
• Members of the lower tribe work hard and dream big, but are more removed from traditional bourgeois norms.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 31 Jan. 2012
• When Van Noten was a child, Antwerp was mostly a quiet, bourgeois town, and yet fashion, the idea of it, wasn’t an impossible concept for him.
  — Hanya Yanagihara, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2017
• Such a thing would of course be impossible for a married man living a respectable bourgeois life.
  — Christopher Beha, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
• The one-act piece is set in the drawing room of a middle-aged English couple living a comfortable bourgeois life in the London suburbs.
  — Tirdad Derakhshani, Philly.com, 7 Sep. 2017
• Beaton had an artist’s eye for detail, a designer’s eye for value and a bourgeois work ethic.
  — Dominic Green, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2021
• The apartment had started life as horse stables in the 1870s, servicing a much larger bourgeois house adjacent to it.
  — Olivia Gregory, ELLE Decor, 24 May 2023
• The core habit of bourgeois life — deferred gratification — has lost its grip on the American soul.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 20 Feb. 2018
• Jamie Lloyd’s approach is just too reduced given that A Doll’s House is about the bourgeois middle class and keeping up appearances.
  — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 9 June 2023
• In this century, the suburbs became a site of bourgeois ambition.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022

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bourgeois

2 of 2 noun

• The second is, the way that the men behaved is part of bourgeois values.
  — Jesse Singal, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Sep. 2017
• But the thrust of the essay was right about the importance of bourgeois values.
  — Mona Charen, National Review, 8 Sep. 2017
• Here, the story is based in more skittish black bourgeois art-world elitism.
  — Armond White, National Review, 1 Sep. 2021
• San Ángel Inn is where the bourgeois bring their mom for Mother’s Day brunch.
  — Cnt Editors, CNT, 19 Sep. 2017
• The decadence served at pricey bourgeois restaurants are withheld from the tongues of those who craft such pleasures.
  — refinery29.com, 31 May 2018
• Members of the rich elite are referred to as fifis, the equivalent of bourgeois.
  — New York Times, 29 June 2018
• The bourgeois, the wealthy and the private sector are the groups President Nicolás Maduro blames for Venezuela’s recession.
  — Carlos HernÁndez, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2016
• Like pious Carmela in her haute bourgeois drag, art museums are married to the mob.
  — Rhonda Lieberman, The New Republic, 23 Sep. 2019
• What about Flaubert’s mantra about living like a bourgeois in order to create wild art?
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
• Those three presidents had been raised in the ideals of bourgeois knightliness.
  — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2018
• Le bourgeois gentilhomme Suite was a delight through and through.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 20 Feb. 2021
• Mann’s new style is modernism in a high-bourgeois mode, as byzantine in its layering as anything in Joyce.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
• Justin Jain plays the usurping bourgeois Lopakhin, who has purchased the house and its beautiful, fruitless orchard.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 14 May 2022
• The portrait that emerges is more complicated than the common views of Franklin as either a smug bourgeois or a genial old man.
  — New York Times, 1 Sep. 2021
• The voyageurs, manageurs du lard, and bourgeois that MacKenzie worked with had already discovered and mapped much of the continent by then.
  — Porter Fox, Outside Online, 19 Apr. 2018
• Like his Vetements shows, this one had a dark, street edge, with a bourgeois lady nominally at the center.
  — Cathy Horyn, The Cut, 2 Oct. 2017
• This, of course, caused even more fury among the bourgeois, who hated the vision of France and French bourgeoisie that Sartre’s novels and new journal were projecting back at them.
  — Longreads, 10 Apr. 2018
• My son says French films come in two types: the story of the poor and unhappy childhood, which plays as tragedy, and the story of the bourgeois neurotic, which plays as comedy.
  — Rachel Kushner, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
• Delano is an uptight bourgeois black fellow from Oak Park.
  — Tony Adler, Chicago Reader, 2 July 2018
• There were the now omnipresent ’80s-isms (voluminous trenches, graphic zigzags), and nods to the bourgeois.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2016
• That maxim—a sound mind in a sound body—is the sort of bourgeois faux-wisdom that fails to equip Aickman’s civil servants to deal with the supernatural.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 7 May 2018
• Gotz, the daughter of a prosperous bourgeois family, would be murdered at Auschwitz.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
• The subject is a classic example of a mid-19th-century bourgeois Parisienne; her glance is either a smile or a judgment.
  — James McAuley, Town & Country, 6 Aug. 2019
• It’s about the bonds and derangements of motherhood, and—as the shadow of politics descends—the deceptive comforts of bourgeois life.—T.A.
  — Vogue, 21 Oct. 2021
• Madame Simenon tortured young Georges, his father, and herself with her dreams of bourgeois elevation.
  — Vince Passaro, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
• The revolution had prised France’s great art holdings out of the hands of the king and the aristocracy, so that in the 19th century collecting became a bourgeois affair.
  — The Economist, 10 Apr. 2021
• The staff is also trying to find an approach to curation so exhibits aren't relevant only to a bourgeois elite.
  — Maya Dukmasova, Chicago Reader, 5 July 2017
• Call this bourgeois, but sensuality and beauty make life worth the trouble.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 26 Feb. 2022
• Bourgeois said Ely preyed on others and originally set bail at $1 million.
  — Grace Wong, chicagotribune.com, 13 May 2017
• Aline was a seamstress from the countryside and so seeing her breastfeed was less shocking to an uptight bourgeois audience.
  — Claire Moran, CNN, 20 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 20 Apr 2024