parvenu
Example Sentences
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Beagin widens her lens to take in this cast of locals and upstate parvenus even as she stays focused on Greta’s rising fever.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2023
Pianists were the standard accompanists, but Shaw dismissed them as parvenus.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 4, 2019
Leipzig, like Hoffenheim, faces a hostile reception at most away matches because of fans who prefer “traditional” clubs with long histories over new-money parvenus.
From Washington Times • Nov. 3, 2016
That makes them mere parvenus compared with the Lovenskiold family across the border in Norway: now led by its 13th generation, it claims a 360-year history and runs successful timber and furniture firms.
From Economist • Mar. 10, 2016
It was known who everybody was; parvenus were few; and there was still a flavour left of old-world traditions and colonial antecedents.
From A Red Wallflower by Warner, Susan
Vocabulary lists containing parvenu
English Words Derived from French, List 7
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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