new-rich
Americanadjective
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newly or suddenly wealthy.
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characteristic of a newly or suddenly wealthy person.
a new-rich display of expensive jewelry.
noun
Etymology
Origin of new-rich
First recorded in 1885–90
Example Sentences
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Most powerful weapon in the hands of the new-rich Navajo tribal council is the treaty of 1868, signed by Lieut.
From Time Magazine Archive
Eight families populate Nickleby, from the histrionic Crummleses to the fop-and-frau Mantalinis to the suffocatingly new-rich Wititterleys, and each plays an amusing or fearful variation on the blood tie.
From Time Magazine Archive
While new-rich American collectors of the 19th century were turning almost exclusively to European art, Corcoran himself chose to concentrate on the new American painters.
From Time Magazine Archive
It will cast the first income-tax cloud over many a new-rich war worker: an estimated 49,000,000 persons will have to pay it.
From Time Magazine Archive
From what he had observed of fashionable people, especially the new-rich, they endeavored to submerge altogether the evidences of past manual and menial labor.
From Half a Rogue by Harold MacGrath
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