nouveau riche
Example Sentences
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It might have been be tacky, but the republic can withstand some nouveau riche architecture on federal property.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 26, 2025
Thirty years later, India's flourishing tech-driven economy of start-ups and creators has birthed a nouveau riche that's afforded Soho House exactly another such market opportunity.
From BBC • Jul. 19, 2025
“And we weren’t like those Wall Street buffoons,” she continues, “the nouveau riche ones you can see coming a mile away by the supernatural glow of their teeth veneers.”
From Washington Post • Sep. 24, 2022
Scarborough played Hermann as a nouveau riche climber who is both haughty and insecure, while Föttinger portrayed him as suave and self-possessed.
From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2022
Forgetting that he’d ever been way behind the fashion curve, he was appalled, in some priggish, nouveau riche kind of way, that certain passengers appeared in the dining room in slacks and sneakers.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
