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Meanings of nouveau-riche in English
Characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position.
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Examples for "arriviste"
Examples for "arriviste"
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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.
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The story also revived the image of Kate's mother Carole Middleton as a social climbing arriviste with particularly gauche taste.
Usage of nouveau-riche in English
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.
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I'd crawl over a mountain of nouveau-riche club sandwiches to get to a nice toastie.
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These nouveau-riche types make some money and stop making sense, a veterinary department official said on Wednesday.
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This swansong for an empire, published in 1994, is still relevant to the nouveau-riche Russia of today.
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The worst of the bunch is the appalling Veruca Salt, the wilful daughter of a crude, nouveau-riche peanut merchant in the 1971 version.
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The New Yorker, March 25, 1967 P. 44 A British art critic encounters a nouveau-riche American lady while covering a Post-Impressionist Exhibition in Paris.