petty-bourgeois

A form of petty bourgeois — Pertaining to the petty bourgeoisie.

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Meanings

adjectivepetty-bourgeois (not comparable)
  1. alternativenot comparableAlternative spelling of petty bourgeois.

    At the very moment when their petty-bourgeois counterparts were coming to power elsewhere in Africa, these Mozambicans found the Portuguese turning their backs on neocolonialism and digging in their heels militarily against any such denouement to their rule.

    1985, John S. Saul, chapter I, in John S. Saul, editor, A Difficult Road: The Transition to Socialism in Mozambique, New York: Monthly Review Press, →ISBN, section 1, page 46
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