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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George and Ruth are the sophisticated, wealthy ones; Clay and Amanda are the middle-class arrivistes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2020
More rabidly, it extended to the long-suffering indigenous population that predated the European arrivistes.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2019
Now, many of them are considered household names, even mandarins of a sort—Gabriel García Márquez, Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes, José Donoso, Julio Cortázar—but first they were gritty arrivistes, young and unknown.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 28, 2015
Over the years, charming upstarts, curious arrivistes, and dogged usurpers joined the original collegiate cocktails, which themselves evolved and degenerated to varying degrees.
From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2013
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
