newly-rich
Example Sentences
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The krone, dropping dizzily, turned today's newly-rich bourgeois into tomorrow's bankrupt.
From Time Magazine Archive
Behold him in The Vortex, his first writing-acting success, backed by newly-rich Michael Arlen.
From Time Magazine Archive
In that poem the newly-rich primipilaris, Ovid's rival in love, is given a character very different from that of Vestalis.
From The Last Poems of Ovid by Akrigg, Mark Bear
"Patronized by old, blue-blooded families, who pretend to have a horror of the newly-rich."
From Dick Hamilton's Cadet Days The Handicap of a Millionaire's Son by Garis, Howard R.
The newly-rich man usually wants to make a splurge, he doesn’t want to buy a country home away off somewhere, in an out of the way nook, where people can’t see him.
From The Radio Boys with the Revenue Guards by Breckenridge, Gerald
