Parvenu synonyms

pär'və-no͝o', -nyo͝o'

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egotistic (related)
Egoistic.
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upstart (related)
The meadow saffron.
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nouveau riche (French)
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arrogant
Having excessive pride in oneself, often with contempt for others.
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snobbish
Having the property of being a snob; arrogant and pretentious; smugly superior or dismissive of perceived inferiors.
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snob
A person who feels and acts smugly superior about his or her particular tastes or interests
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newcomer
A new participant in some activity; a neophyte.
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arriviste
Upstart, newcomer, late arrival, nouveau riche, parvenu, generally characterised as an ambitious, brash or arrogant person who has yet to integrate with his or her new social group.
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parvenue
Like or characteristic of a parvenue
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nouveau-riche
Newly rich; like a nouveau riche.
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pretentious
Ostentatious; intended to impress others.
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Parvenu Sentence Examples

  • 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.

  • A parvenu of the middle classes, he was brutal in his treatment of the lower orders and a sycophant in his behaviour towards the powerful; prodigiously active, ill-obeyedas was the custombut much dreaded.

  • On the death of Filippo Maria Visconti, Filelfo, after a short hesitation, transferred his allegiance to Francesco Sforza, the new duke of Milan; and in order to curry favour with this parvenu, he began his ponderous epic, the Sforziad, of which 12,800 lines'were written, but which was never published.

  • Born in a drapers shop, this great administrator always preserved its narrow horizon, its short-sighted imagination, its taste for detail, and the conceit of the parvenu; while with his insinuating ways, and knowing better than Fouquet how to keep his distance, he made himself indispensable by his savoir-faire and his readiness for every emergency.

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