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Significados de parvenue en inglés
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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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.
Uso de parvenue en inglés
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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.
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This repugnance, stamped on her forehead, on her lips, and ill-disguised, was taken for the insolence of a parvenue.
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I suppose he takes after his mother, who is but a parvenue, I've heard them say at the Towers.
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But in this case his kinsmen and associates will not acknowledge her; the parvenue will not be received on any conditions whatever.
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She had no fancy for its conglomerate societies, its literary cottages, its parvenue suits of rooms, its saloon habits, and its bathing herds.
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The English men of fashion in Paris courted her, too, to the disgust of the ladies their wives, who could not bear the parvenue.
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Others, proud of their husbands' standing and of their wealth, could not invent enough unspoken affronts and patronizing phrases to humiliate the little parvenue.
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Mr. Snodgrass devotes a chapter to the parvenues at Newport.
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But Eton and Harrow have to be aristocratic because they consist so largely of parvenues.
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They look upon us as low-born parvenues, all alike.
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It almost tempted me to sell out; they were parvenues, too-thatmade the matter worse, you know.
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They are used by the parvenues and heartily despised by the very people whom they so obsequiously serve.
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