adventurer, cad, gate-crasher, looby, modern man, name-dropper, new boy, parvenue, rookie, squatter, warm man
Definitionadj. characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position
Last update: July 21, 2015
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Rousseau his father was a rich parvenu, who brought his son at an early age to Paris, where the latter spent most of his life. [Please select]
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Hundreds and hundreds of them have never been inside the house of a rich parvenu, nor have their women. [Please select]
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In 1870 the American steel maker was the parvenu of the trade. [Please select]
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Fletcher was a purse-proud parvenu, who owed all the consideration he enjoyed to his commercial position. [Please select]
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Of course Plank owed him more than he could ever pay--the ungrateful parvenu. [Please select]
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People will say he was a vulgar parvenu, a sycophant, a snob--heaven knows what. [Please select]
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There was not a parvenu among them all; and there are no human assemblies about which that may be said. [Please select]
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'] The alliance of this parvenu 'Phanariot' aristocracy with the conservative Orthodox Church was not unnatural, for the Church itself had greatly extended its political power under Ottoman suzerainty.' [Please select]
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