MR BIRLING - Key words

Ostentatious

pretentious or showy behaviour

Avaricious

extreme greed for wealth

Narcissistic

inflated sense of self importance

Rapacious

aggressively greedy

Supercilious

behaving as if you are better than others

Bourgeois

belonging to or characteristic of the middle class,

Patronising

to speak or act towards them in a way that seems friendly but implies they are not as intelligent or capable as you are.

Avaricious

having or showing an extreme greed for wealth or material gain.

Pompous

arrogant or conceited

Sanctimonious

making a show of being morally superior to other people.

Pretentious

attempting to impress by affecting greater importance or merit than is actually possessed.

Condesending

having or showing an attitude of patronizing superiority.

Cynical

believing the worst of human nature and motives;

Dismissive

feeling or showing that something is unworthy of consideration.

Dogmatic

doesn’t change views

Hubristic

excessive pride

has an egoistic understanding of the world

has exploitive tendencies

a microcosm of exploitive factory owners

Myopic

short sighted both literally and morally

Philistine

indifferent to culture or moral sensitivity obsessed with material success

Dogmatic

stubbornly asserts opinions as undeniable truths