bourgeois

by Paul Niquette
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bourgeois n. 
  1. One belonging to the bourgeoisie. 
  2. The middle class. 
  3. One whose behavior is marked by conformity to the standards and conventions of the middle class. 
  4. In Marxist theory, a member of the property-owning class; a capitalist as opposed to a member of the proletariat.


Once a handy disparagement of others until I found out that the word described me.


 
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