arriviste
noun
a person who has recently acquired unaccustomed status, wealth, or success, especially by dubious means and without earning concomitant esteem.
arrivistes
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pluralof arriviste.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Welcome to the second season of HBO’s opulent drama “The Gilded Age,” a series laden with emblematic showdowns between the gaudy arrivistes and the idle drawing-room class.
From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2023
Yes, they must have seemed like arrivistes when they came out on top after a long period of civil war.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2022
George and Ruth are the sophisticated, wealthy ones; Clay and Amanda are the middle-class arrivistes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2020
And now, secure with their corporate sponsors and honorary square jaws, they, in turn, were sneering at a new breed of outsider arrivistes: nerds!
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 17, 2014
Masters of power politics, engineers of genius, the Mexica were also upstarts and pretenders, arrivistes who falsely claimed a brilliant line of descent.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
