parvenu

Example Sentences

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Chenoweth, who is as gleaming as a holiday ornament on Liberace’s Christmas tree, arrives at a canny balance of quixotic generosity and parvenu carelessness in her portrayal of a woman she refuses to lampoon.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From New York Times

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

From Literature

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

From The New Yorker