[ UK /ɐɹɪvˈiːst/ ]
NOUN
  1. a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class
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How To Use arriviste In A Sentence

  • They've been replaced in the Commons by the suburban arrivistes who now dominate the Tory benches; they've lost their feudal right to sit in the Lords.
  • Believe me, the work of a line cook in a restaurant catering to the tastes of arriviste Texans is even more boring than it is cracked up to be.
  • It might also be said that with the structure he's erected, Lauren is something of an arriviste, but if that were uttered, it would require adding that many of the mansions introduced on those soigné avenues were constructed as well by new money confidently joining the old -- like the Rhinelander mansion that's been Lauren's home-base haberdashery for men and women these last few decades. David Finkle: Saturday Shoppers View Ralph Lauren's New Madison Avenue Mansion
  • The ranks of modern royalty are crowded with arrivistes.
  • As the Van Doren family play their favourite parlour game - trading Shakespearian quotes across the dinner table - an arriviste young lawyer watches, open-mouthed and clearly intimidated.
  • Distinguishing between a painted lady of ancient noble lineage and a lady with arriviste social ambitions who availed herself of face paint with equal liberality is no longer a matter of reading fixed signs on the surface of the body.
  • The ‘image’ of a city like Tokyo or New York might well come from star-struck arrivistes rather than locals.
  • Many, such as Fielding's cousin Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, would go on laughing at Richardson, the anxious arriviste, for his ‘low’ pretensions to gentility.
  • He is an outsider, an arriviste, and a rags-to-riches political scrapper.
  • The supreme need of the arriviste is to be able to disown and forget those who have helped him so far. Cruel and Unusual
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