arriviste

Example Sentences

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Welcome to the second season of HBO’s opulent drama “The Gilded Age,” a series laden with emblematic showdowns between the gaudy arrivistes and the idle drawing-room class.

From New York Times

Neither are they pure expressions of self-made grandeur in the style of today’s proud arrivistes who flag their wealth on social media as a capitalist boast.

From Washington Post

Times’ Orange County bureau employed hundreds, with us as the foul-mouthed arriviste.

From Los Angeles Times

Her circle includes an aunt who is a champion wrestler, a resident Goth named Isabel and sultry Penny Century, an arriviste married to a wealthy magnate with horns on his head.

From Los Angeles Times

Yes, they must have seemed like arrivistes when they came out on top after a long period of civil war.

From Washington Post