WordNet
petit bourgeois
n. a member of the lower middle class
lower middle class (shopkeepers and clerical staff etc.) [syn: petite bourgeoisie, petty bourgeoisie]
Usage examples of "petit bourgeois".
He had his faults, including a definite taste for cruelty, a certain ingrained petit bourgeois vulgarity, an exaggerated opinion of his military acumen, and the well-known, regrettable tendency to anti-Semitism.
Nor did he tolerate unions or the legal regulations of petit bourgeois socialists and liberals.
It has happened on such a scale as to make the old classification of society into capitalists, proletarians and petit bourgeois (small property-owners) almost obsolete.