Synonyms for parvenue
| Grammar : Noun |
Définition of parvenue
- As in upstart : noun newly rich
- The first generation makes the millions, the second generation is parvenue, the third is arrivée.
- Extract from : « Jonathan and His Continent » by Max O'Rell
- It is curious that we, offsprings of parvenue success, should be capable of such repudiation.
- Extract from : « The Kempton-Wace Letters » by Jack London
- There were no jarring notes or lavish, tawdry display, the pitfalls into which the parvenue and petit bourgeois invariably fall.
- Extract from : « When Dreams Come True » by Ritter Brown
- The girl showed great powers of duplicity, all the trickiness of a parvenue, to be quite frank.
- Extract from : « Clark's Field » by Robert Herrick
- It is at any rate happier than that of the parvenue, unless the mere fact of being arrivée confers any special enjoyment.
- Extract from : « Town Life in Australia » by R. E. N. (Richard) Twopeny
- Some of our political houses are parvenue by pedigree; they hand on vulgarity like a coat of-arms.
- Extract from : « What's Wrong With The World » by G.K. Chesterton
- "Gentlemen have so much more liberty than we ladies have," says Mrs. Parvenue.
- Extract from : « The Verbalist » by Thomas Embly Osmun, (AKA Alfred Ayres)
- Do you acknowledge yourself a parvenue that you rejoice at the entrance of any one special person into your doors?
- Extract from : « The Sword of Damocles » by Anna Katharine Green
- His Madame Guichard is the most cheerfully vulgar type of the parvenue which any one ever dared to put upon the stage.
- Extract from : « Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 » by Various
- And yet there was about her always and under all circumstances, an indescribable flavor of the parvenue.
- Extract from : « Other People's Money » by Emile Gaboriau
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