petit-bourgeois

See also: petit bourgeois

English

Adjective

petit-bourgeois (not comparable)

1. Alternative spelling of petit bourgeois
   • 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 175:

     However wary you are, however circumspect, however suspicious, in seven long years the abominable tranquility of an essentially petit-bourgeois existence will lull your vigilance.