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parvenu
noun as in newly rich
Strong match
Weak match
noun as in upstart
Weak matches
Example Sentences
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.
But Corya is no vulgar, narcissistic bully and parvenu.
His mother, “born of samurai stock” and married to “a parvenu beneath herself,” succumbed to mental illness six months after Ryunosuke’s birth.
It was simply Woods, caddie Joe LaCava and the occasional passing of an inside-the-ropes parvenu—this writer included.
The first great misfortune that befell the U.S. and its allies came in November of 2016, when this small-minded parvenu was elected President.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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