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Opposed or hostile to people or things considered middle class: Also: Opposed or hostile to people or things considered to be preoccupied with respectability and material values.

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  • The entire Zionist project was distinctly antibourgeois.
  • The antibourgeois Wojtyla was much more steadfast than the anticommunist Wojtyla.
  • "They still willingly countenance an antibourgeois life," said Falameezar grumblingly, but with less certainty.
  • We, therefore, need this third party desperately to become a vehicle for all the progressive, antibourgeois liberal, desires of our awakening social consciousness.
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