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  • adjective Opposed to the bourgeoisie.

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anti- +‎ bourgeois

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Examples

  • As long as most Egyptians fear free, competitive markets and believe that their well-being is promoted by protected nationalized monopolies—as long as "privatization and liberalization are dirty words" as Mr. Kaminski describes Egyptians' antibourgeois attitudes—Egypt's economy will stagnate and ordinary Egyptians will continue to be among the poorest people on earth.

    Egypt Must Change to Become Rich 2011

  • The entire Zionist project was distinctly antibourgeois.

    David Brooks: The Tel Aviv Cluster 2010

  • "They still willingly countenance an antibourgeois life," said Falameezar grumblingly, but with less certainty.

    A Corridor in the Asylum 2010

  • The entire Zionist project was distinctly antibourgeois.

    VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » David Brooks: The Tel Aviv Cluster 2010

  • We, therefore, need this third party desperately to become a vehicle for all the progressive, antibourgeois liberal, desires of our awakening social consciousness.

    Running Out of Gas on the Highway of Love 2009

  • ˜Nietschean™ antibourgeois individualism, in tune with antidemocratic ideological tendencies in German culture of the Weimar period, including the ˜high™ culture of the circle of Stefan George, and very much at odds with Baron's political convictions.

    Civic Humanism Moulakis, Athanasios 2007

  • The French aristocratic ideal was resolutely antimaterialistic and antibourgeois.

    The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006

  • The French aristocratic ideal was resolutely antimaterialistic and antibourgeois.

    The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006

  • The French aristocratic ideal was resolutely antimaterialistic and antibourgeois.

    The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006

  • The French aristocratic ideal was resolutely antimaterialistic and antibourgeois.

    The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006

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