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Synonyms for parvenue

Grammar : Noun


Définition of parvenue

  • As in upstart : noun newly rich
Example sentences :
  • The first generation makes the millions, the second generation is parvenue, the third is arrivée.
  • Extract from : « Jonathan and His Continent » by Max O'Rell
  • It is curious that we, offsprings of parvenue success, should be capable of such repudiation.
  • Extract from : « The Kempton-Wace Letters » by Jack London
  • There were no jarring notes or lavish, tawdry display, the pitfalls into which the parvenue and petit bourgeois invariably fall.
  • Extract from : « When Dreams Come True » by Ritter Brown
  • The girl showed great powers of duplicity, all the trickiness of a parvenue, to be quite frank.
  • Extract from : « Clark's Field » by Robert Herrick
  • It is at any rate happier than that of the parvenue, unless the mere fact of being arrivée confers any special enjoyment.
  • Extract from : « Town Life in Australia » by R. E. N. (Richard) Twopeny
  • Some of our political houses are parvenue by pedigree; they hand on vulgarity like a coat of-arms.
  • Extract from : « What's Wrong With The World » by G.K. Chesterton
  • "Gentlemen have so much more liberty than we ladies have," says Mrs. Parvenue.
  • Extract from : « The Verbalist » by Thomas Embly Osmun, (AKA Alfred Ayres)
  • Do you acknowledge yourself a parvenue that you rejoice at the entrance of any one special person into your doors?
  • Extract from : « The Sword of Damocles » by Anna Katharine Green
  • His Madame Guichard is the most cheerfully vulgar type of the parvenue which any one ever dared to put upon the stage.
  • Extract from : « Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 » by Various
  • And yet there was about her always and under all circumstances, an indescribable flavor of the parvenue.
  • Extract from : « Other People's Money » by Emile Gaboriau

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