Meanings of arriviste in English

Is Madonna a self-absorbed megalomaniac with a touch of the arriviste?

Is he an art connoisseur or a crass arriviste?

Not for them the arriviste tendencies of Chelsea or Manchester City; they would succeed "the Arsenal way".

Everyone who matters still regards you as a vulgar little arriviste incapable of thinking beyond the next financial quarter.

The story also revived the image of Kate's mother Carole Middleton as a social climbing arriviste with particularly gauche taste.

If Morgan Stanley was the aristocrat of the Street, Merrill was the arriviste, at least when it came to banking.

With arriviste scandals like IAAF corruption and tennis fixing threatening to steal its thunder, Fifa is forced into amusing acts of attention-seeking.

Its plugged-in capabilities make it seem like a slick arriviste compared to instruments that have been the backbone of orchestras for centuries.

The market didn't have to wait long to see the arriviste's response to efforts to frighten it out of the domestic mortgage market.

Kanye West started in the middle and rose to the world of high fashion, acquiring a tortured navel-gazing and hyper-consciousness about his own arriviste status.

Arrivistes, when they arrive, are supposed to be gauche and gaudy.