arriviste
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Mr. McInerney had his turn as a celebrated literary arriviste.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 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
Maréchal thrived in this milieu; unlike her grandfather, who came from a small fishing village, she was not an arriviste but the scion of an entrenched dynasty.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 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
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 ● Feb. 11, 2023
Her extravagant new home was designed to emulate grand European houses, as were the mansions built by real-life New York arrivistes of the era.
From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2022
George and Ruth are the sophisticated, wealthy ones; Clay and Amanda are the middle-class arrivistes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2020
Trump and his wife, Ivana, were wealthy arrivistes on the New York social scene.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 29, 2016
They resemble the arrivistes of the Gilded Age, which began in the 1880s when industrial capitalists amassed staggering fortunes, except that there are so many of them and they seem to be relatively anonymous.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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