We are using cookies
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
Did you know?
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
Meanings of arriviste in English
Catalan
nou-ric A person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class.
Synonyms
Examples for "upstart"
Examples for "upstart"
1
Some investors, however, have concerns about investing in an upstart car company.
2
It was a second quarter to forget for social media upstart Snap.
3
Wellingtonians clearly see being an artistic upstart as their unique selling point.
4
The upstart pretensions of a young woman without family, connections, or fortune.
5
What was it like, she asked, to work with the upstart network?
1
In 1870 the American steel maker was the parvenu of the trade.
2
The parvenu millionaire-thecotton lord-harborsthese ruffians by refusing to prosecute poachers.
3
He had thrown his hardships at her like a parvenu his riches.
4
There was nothing of the garishness of the parvenu in the capital's display.
5
The room was richly furnished, but in the pretentious taste of a parvenu.
1
That said, Nick's family actually has little interest in fame, a very nouveau-riche idea.
2
In 2050, the nouveau-riche arrivistes stake their big skyline claims on the public eye.
3
I'd crawl over a mountain of nouveau-riche club sandwiches to get to a nice toastie.
4
These nouveau-riche types make some money and stop making sense, a veterinary department official said on Wednesday.
5
This swansong for an empire, published in 1994, is still relevant to the nouveau-riche Russia of today.
Usage of arriviste in English
1
Is Madonna a self-absorbed megalomaniac with a touch of the arriviste?
2
Is he an art connoisseur or a crass arriviste?
3
Not for them the arriviste tendencies of Chelsea or Manchester City; they would succeed "the Arsenal way".
4
Everyone who matters still regards you as a vulgar little arriviste incapable of thinking beyond the next financial quarter.
5
The story also revived the image of Kate's mother Carole Middleton as a social climbing arriviste with particularly gauche taste.
6
If Morgan Stanley was the aristocrat of the Street, Merrill was the arriviste, at least when it came to banking.
7
With arriviste scandals like IAAF corruption and tennis fixing threatening to steal its thunder, Fifa is forced into amusing acts of attention-seeking.
8
Its plugged-in capabilities make it seem like a slick arriviste compared to instruments that have been the backbone of orchestras for centuries.
9
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.
10
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.
11
Arrivistes, when they arrive, are supposed to be gauche and gaudy.
Frequent collocations
More collocations
Arriviste through the time