arriviste
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Four years later, he had enough arriviste chutzpah to run for state governor as the candidate for the Liberty Union Party—a leftist Vermont grouping.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026
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 ● Jan. 3, 2023
Their arriviste status is established right away, with the appearance of wagons carrying crates of statuary presumably ransacked from European homes and churches.
From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2022
Similarly, in Our Mutual Friend there’s lacerating satire of the nouveau-riche Veneerings and their aristocratic and arriviste hangers-on.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 23, 2020
Bobby, in contrast, was nervous and volatile, the chess arriviste of Brooklyn, a colt of a player, and as it was beginning to develop, the spearhead of the coming generation of American players.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
George and Ruth are the sophisticated, wealthy ones; Clay and Amanda are the middle-class arrivistes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2020
More rabidly, it extended to the long-suffering indigenous population that predated the European arrivistes.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2019
The article, which describes old-fashioned Wasps feuding with glamorous arrivistes, is a safari of rich people behaving badly.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 16, 2019
And the veterans blame the newcomers, calling them money-grubbing arrivistes with no respect for the trade.
From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2014
Masters of power politics, engineers of genius, the Mexica were also upstarts and pretenders, arrivistes who falsely claimed a brilliant line of descent.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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