petty bourgeoisie
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of petty bourgeoisie
First recorded in 1840–50
Example Sentences
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Painting Laszlo as some mascot for the self-involved petty bourgeoisie would be easy to do if Berry’s performance didn’t smash all expectations.
From Salon ● Nov. 11, 2024
Mao extended the revolutionary class even further to include members of the intelligentsia and the petty bourgeoisie, a term describing those managing small-scale commercial undertakings.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
As Hugo Young puts it in his book “One of Us,” the young Thatcher “belonged to the rising petty bourgeoisie, not the beleaguered working class.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2020
And on the consumer level, the state’s low taxes drew Europe’s tax-averse petty bourgeoisie.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 15, 2017
Even if it is narrowed by excluding the great capitalists and landowners, still it embraces the lesser capitalists, small landowners, shopkeepers, and the petty bourgeoisie in general.
From Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy by Spargo, John
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