arriviste
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Like with his media empire, Turner began his sailing career as a noisy arriviste, and finished as a champ.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 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
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
The main thing Undine has going for her is that she’s gorgeous—her looks “as vivid, and almost as crude” as the electric lights that blaze in her arriviste hotel room.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 9, 2019
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
Yes, they must have seemed like arrivistes when they came out on top after a long period of civil war.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2022
George and Ruth are the sophisticated, wealthy ones; Clay and Amanda are the middle-class arrivistes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2020
Still, they had not ignored the risk that they could potentially be seen as arrivistes in their new home.
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2017
Trump and his wife, Ivana, were wealthy arrivistes on the New York social scene.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 29, 2016
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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