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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Neither are they pure expressions of self-made grandeur in the style of today’s proud arrivistes who flag their wealth on social media as a capitalist boast.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 11, 2023
Her extravagant new home was designed to emulate grand European houses, as were the mansions built by real-life New York arrivistes of the era.
From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2022
George and Ruth are the sophisticated, wealthy ones; Clay and Amanda are the middle-class arrivistes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2020
The article, which describes old-fashioned Wasps feuding with glamorous arrivistes, is a safari of rich people behaving badly.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 16, 2019
They resemble the arrivistes of the Gilded Age, which began in the 1880s when industrial capitalists amassed staggering fortunes, except that there are so many of them and they seem to be relatively anonymous.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
