bourgeois

Converse of object

• become: But when one leaves, one is expected to leave, become a bourgeois.
• despair: That makes an impression on the despairing petty bourgeois.

Adjective modifier

• petty: Much better to join forces with the petty bourgeois Scottish National Party in campaigning for an independent capitalist Scotland.
• big: Blum is merely a conservative middle bourgeois who fatally gravitates to the society of the big bourgeois.
• modern: For some sections embrace a modern secular bourgeois or nationalist ideology, while other sections gravitate toward some form of secular working class response.
• conservative: Blum is merely a conservative middle bourgeois who fatally gravitates to the society of the big bourgeois.
• wealthy: In the red light district, wealthy bourgeois Jane Lodge ( Alexandra Delli Colli ) goes to visit a live sex show.

Modifies a noun

• democracy: In point of fact, bourgeois democracy is the political formula for free trade, nothing more.
• revolution: The bourgeois revolution could no longer satisfy the masses.
• ideology: In their view, the spread of bourgeois ideologies was only an effect of the power of the media.
• republic: In the political field, absolute monarchy, not the bourgeois republic, gained ground.
• intelligentsia: The petty bourgeois intelligentsia, which is in every way dependent on the big bourgeoisie, obtained the leadership over the peasantry.
• parliamentarism: More cannot be done, it would seem, toward self-renunciation, toward sacrificing socialism upon the altar of bourgeois parliamentarism.

Modifying Another Word

• purely: At this point, the Labor Party changed into a purely bourgeois party almost overnight.
• even: But, like ourselves, Luxemburg opposes any suppression of criticism, even bourgeois criticism.
• only: It follows that under communism there remains for a time not only bourgeois law, but even the bourgeois state, without the bourgeoisie!
• not: The Church knew as well as we do that in our era the alternative to Fascism is revolutionary Communism, and not bourgeois democracy.
• essentially: Eddie Ford argues that it is an essentially bourgeois ideology, and presents a communist analysis.
• completely: For him, the capitulation of ' a completely bourgeois Parliament ' then, was the pattern for 1961.

Noun used with modifier

• century: The early 19th century bourgeois fear of the ' dangerous classes ' now returned as the fear of the growing ' underclass ' .