petty bourgeois

petty bourgeois (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to the petty bourgeoisie.

petty bourgeois (usually uncountable, plural petty bourgeois)

1. An individual member of the petty bourgeoisie
   • 1933 December 1, Leon Trotsky, “Hitler’s National Socialism”, in The Yale Review, volume 23, number 2:

     Not every exasperated petty bourgeois could have become Hitler, but a particle of Hitler is lodged in every exasperated petty bourgeois.