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View definitions for parvenu

parvenu

noun as in newly rich

Strong match

Weak match

noun as in upstart

Strong matches

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Beagin widens her lens to take in this cast of locals and upstate parvenus even as she stays focused on Greta’s rising fever.

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The tendrils of Rangnick’s influence spread far beyond the parvenu clubs — Hoffenheim, Red Bull Salzburg, RB Leipzig — that he has turned into mainstays of either the Bundesliga or the Champions League.

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Worse, they had begun to attract the wrong sort of people—parvenus from Boston and New York.

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Pianists were the standard accompanists, but Shaw dismissed them as parvenus.

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PGA Tour ranges are littered with teams of agents, instructors, lackeys and general parvenus.

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