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materialistic

ma·te·ria·listic

UK/məˌtɪəɹ.i.əˈlɪs.tɪk/ US/mʌˌtɪriʌˈlɪstɪk/ uncommon

adjective

2.

conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class

  • “a bourgeois mentality”

Origin

From material + -istic.

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