bourgeois in the PONS Dictionary

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Bourgeois concurred, adding that female students filled the swamp and conducted fire drills.
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Communes are proposed as the proletarian counterpart to bourgeois political forms such as parliaments.
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The declared aim was the destruction of bourgeois marriage and private property, free love, and collective education of the children.
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The poem, written to frighten the bourgeois, was modeled after the custom of the period.
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These things were regarded as symbols of bourgeois lifestyle, that represented wealth.
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The bourgeois and the bourgeois spirit were exploited, with the latter being used to manipulate the public.
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In 1948, genetics was officially declared a bourgeois pseudoscience; all geneticists were fired from work (some were also arrested), and all genetic research was discontinued.
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The two warring factions both agreed that the coming revolution would primarily be bourgeois democratic in its character.
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It was also more bourgeois, being essentially created by citizens for citizens, with their tastes and their concerns in mind.
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This is the sense in which the republic, from the great bourgeois revolutions to today, is a republic of property.
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