小しょうブルジョア

noun

petit bourgeois; petty bourgeois

Refers to the lower middle class, especially small business owners and shopkeepers, often with a nuance of conventional or narrow-minded values. Compare プチブルジョア, a more colloquial abbreviation.

See also: プチブルジョア

• 彼かれは小しょうブルジョアの出しゅっ身しんで、両りょう親しんは小ちいさな店みせを営いとなんでいた。

  He comes from a petit bourgeois background; his parents ran a small shop.

• 小しょうブルジョア的てきな考かんがえ方かたから抜ぬけ出だせない。

  I can't break free from a petty bourgeois way of thinking.