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View definitions for parvenu

parvenu

noun as in newly rich

Strong match

Weak match

noun as in upstart

Strong matches

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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.

The tendrils of Rangnick’s influence spread far beyond the parvenu clubs — Hoffenheim, Red Bull Salzburg, RB Leipzig — that he has turned into mainstays of either the Bundesliga or the Champions League.

Worse, they had begun to attract the wrong sort of people—parvenus from Boston and New York.

Pianists were the standard accompanists, but Shaw dismissed them as parvenus.

PGA Tour ranges are littered with teams of agents, instructors, lackeys and general parvenus.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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