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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 "upstart"
Examples for "upstart"
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Some investors, however, have concerns about investing in an upstart car company.
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It was a second quarter to forget for social media upstart Snap.
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Wellingtonians clearly see being an artistic upstart as their unique selling point.
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The upstart pretensions of a young woman without family, connections, or fortune.
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What was it like, she asked, to work with the upstart network?
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In 1870 the American steel maker was the parvenu of the trade.
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The parvenu millionaire-thecotton lord-harborsthese ruffians by refusing to prosecute poachers.
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He had thrown his hardships at her like a parvenu his riches.
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There was nothing of the garishness of the parvenu in the capital's display.
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The room was richly furnished, but in the pretentious taste of a parvenu.
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The comtesse is nothing but a common, ordinary parvenue originating no one knows where.
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They are not a parvenue family, but date from the days of Richard III.
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One would think you a parvenue, absolutely, to hear you!
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Some of our political houses are parvenue by pedigree; they hand on vulgarity like a coat of-arms.
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A shrewd little parvenue, that was all.
Usage of nouveau-riche in English
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That said, Nick's family actually has little interest in fame, a very nouveau-riche idea.
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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.