nouveau riche
Example Sentences
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It might have been be tacky, but the republic can withstand some nouveau riche architecture on federal property.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 26, 2025
Thirty years later, India's flourishing tech-driven economy of start-ups and creators has birthed a nouveau riche that's afforded Soho House exactly another such market opportunity.
From BBC • Jul. 19, 2025
A TV adaptation of “The Custom of the Country” had been in the works at Sony in 2014, with Scarlett Johansson being eyed to play the nouveau riche Undine.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2023
New restaurants and malls catering to nouveau riche Afghans riding the economic boom appeared.
From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2023
I am filled with the gaudy delight, the monstrous grace of the nouveau riche.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
