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nou-ric A person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class.
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Is Madonna a self-absorbed megalomaniac with a touch of the arriviste?
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Is he an art connoisseur or a crass arriviste?
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Not for them the arriviste tendencies of Chelsea or Manchester City; they would succeed "the Arsenal way".
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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.
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If Morgan Stanley was the aristocrat of the Street, Merrill was the arriviste, at least when it came to banking.
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With arriviste scandals like IAAF corruption and tennis fixing threatening to steal its thunder, Fifa is forced into amusing acts of attention-seeking.
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Its plugged-in capabilities make it seem like a slick arriviste compared to instruments that have been the backbone of orchestras for centuries.
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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.
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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.
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Arrivistes, when they arrive, are supposed to be gauche and gaudy.