new rich

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In Stevens' world, the,socially important "ins" compromise brilliantly with the new-rich "outs."

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How amazingly good-natured you are toward the new-rich.

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He is a skillful social satirist, and he contrives sardonic contrasts between the haughty old-rich and the pushy new-rich.

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Eight families populate Nickleby, from the histrionic Crummleses to the fop-and-frau Mantalinis to the suffocatingly new-rich Wititterleys, and each plays an amusing or fearful variation on the blood tie.

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Bribery was carried to a preposterous height, and the new-rich bought seats as openly as they bought their horses.

From The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration by Poole, Reginald Lane