parvenu

And when it came to blood, beside her I was parvenu.

They must feel as if a rich parvenu has just moved into the mansion next door.

It's pretty much the same with the comic clothes of the parvenu.

Will a status-conscious 212 go out with a 646 parvenu?

Is it necessary to become a parvenu to become American?

They got there first, meaning they're smarter than the parvenus crashing the party.

Art combines the perspective of the parvenu and the pariah.

Nobs was a parvenu; but it failed to worry him.

And don't send that renegade parvenu calling for me next time, either!

And the parvenus are ever eager to seize what is not theirs."

He seems to be nothing but a parvenu with a certain flair for minor sorcery.

And Royal had the raw ambition of the parvenu.

It was a newcomer, almost a parvenu, the creation of refugees and pirates.

"All parvenus need a paragon of good taste to reassure them," Henry said.

The newest parvenu in the peerage, perhaps, but a countess.

England was ruled by an aristocracy constantly recruited from parvenus.

Many parvenus in the United States worked their way up the social ladder, starting as poor immigrants.

A parvenu is a person who is a relative newcomer to a socioeconomic class.

Whether they represent simple parvenu restlessness or dot-com despair is hard to know.

"The man's a parvenu from an Italian backwater. "

At first, the older man dismisses Mozart as a gross, ill-mannered parvenu.

The Web denizen looks down on the Internet parvenu.

Shame the wine - a parvenu Chardonnay - proved to be a weak link.

Relative, that is, to the three parvenus who have displaced him from the top of the UK rich list.

They're about a self-involved parvenu who wants to be "king of the hill, top of the heap."