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
Strutting along, supported by his fine clothes, and the consciousness of doing the right thing in the right way, the newly-rich man walked up the path to Young's house and ascended the steps quietly.
From The Secret of the Storm Country by Hitchcock, Lucius W.
It was so different from the average newly-rich American home that it moved even Mrs. MacGregor to praise.
From The Purple Heights by Oemler, Marie Conway
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
