arriviste
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Like with his media empire, Turner began his sailing career as a noisy arriviste, and finished as a champ.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
Her circle includes an aunt who is a champion wrestler, a resident Goth named Isabel and sultry Penny Century, an arriviste married to a wealthy magnate with horns on his head.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2023
Zeynep Bozbay is warm and convincing as Marianne Effinger, who rejects her arriviste family’s lavish lifestyle by devoting herself to charity.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2022
Similarly, in Our Mutual Friend there’s lacerating satire of the nouveau-riche Veneerings and their aristocratic and arriviste hangers-on.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 23, 2020
Bobby, in contrast, was nervous and volatile, the chess arriviste of Brooklyn, a colt of a player, and as it was beginning to develop, the spearhead of the coming generation of American players.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
Yes, they must have seemed like arrivistes when they came out on top after a long period of civil war.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2022
George and Ruth are the sophisticated, wealthy ones; Clay and Amanda are the middle-class arrivistes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2020
You think of the hippie arrivistes in the sixties and seventies, but, even a generation earlier, the place had been the site of a cultural retreat.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 17, 2016
Over the years, charming upstarts, curious arrivistes, and dogged usurpers joined the original collegiate cocktails, which themselves evolved and degenerated to varying degrees.
From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2013
Masters of power politics, engineers of genius, the Mexica were also upstarts and pretenders, arrivistes who falsely claimed a brilliant line of descent.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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