How To Use Parvenu In A Sentence
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The others are parvenus and upstarts in comparison.
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And as for a parvenue, well that would be Sarah Palin would it not.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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It is curious that we, offsprings of parvenue success, should be capable of such repudiation.
The Kempton-Wace Letters
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My comment that arms control is not the exclusive parvenue of this nation of ours, especially considering that we are the largest arms dealers in the world, stands.
No Impeachment? No Problem. Think Nixon and President Pelosi
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Their repulse was a bitter humiliation to the _parvenue_ Empress, whose resentment took the form (along with many other curious results) of opening the present Boulevard St. Germain, its line being intentionally carried through the heart of that quarter, teeming with historic "Hotels" of the old aristocracy, where beautiful constructions were mercilessly torn down to make way for the new avenue.
Worldly Ways and Byways
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As Modeste, dazzled by the magnificence of the great lords, entered and beheld this lesser Versailles, she suddenly remembered her approaching interview with the celebrated duchesses, and began to fear that she might seem awkward, or provincial, or parvenue; in fact, she lost her self-possession, and heartily repented having wished for a hunt.
Modeste Mignon
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The lady who had known the Guer-mantes since 1914 considered another who had been introduced to them in 1916 a parvenue, gave her the nod of a dowager duchess while inspecting her through her lorgnon, and avowed with a significant gesture that no one in society knew whether the lady was even married.
Time Regained
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La lettre m'est parvenue dans un bien mauvais etat ...
Pinku-tk Diary Entry
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The lady who had known the Guer-mantes since 1914 considered another who had been introduced to them in 1916 a parvenue, gave her the nod of a dowager duchess while inspecting her through her lorgnon, and avowed with a significant gesture that no one in society knew whether the lady was even married.
Time Regained
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Une invitation m'est d'ailleurs parvenue par e-mail.
Quechup = spammeurs — Climb to the Stars
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And yet one often hears the bitterness of a displaced generation: ‘How many out of this avalanche of parvenus will stay the course?’
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Et je suis parvenue à comprendre les éléments de physique qui y étaient exposés.
Archive 2010-07-01
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I often think a parvenue, or half-bred woman, would burst if she had to do as I do.
The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton
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The French gentilhomme must be of noble blood: he must be of ancient and distinguished race, for no _nouveau parvenu_ can ever aspire to be cited as a _vrai gentilhomme_, while the qualifications necessary for sustaining the character seem to be wholly confined to the one virtue of generosity.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876
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He presented himself as a supremely patrician figure, so different from the vulgar parvenues of the Thatcher cabinet.
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Even the most parvenu journalist is, or should be, taught at his first shoot that grouse and partridges are counted in brace, pheasants singly.
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That even today a Democratic nominee speaks that way confirms G.K. Chesterton's belief that some political institutions are "parvenue by pedigree; they hand on vulgarity like a coat-of-arms.
Relaxation By Exhaustion
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The English men of fashion in Paris courted her, too, to the disgust of the ladies their wives, who could not bear the parvenue.
Vanity Fair
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He is not alone in his depravity, however; his mistress is an opportunistic parvenu, and his wife is a merciless harpy.
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Telles sont mes sentiments sur la formation et sur le jeu des couleurs; c'est en suivant ces principes que je suis parvenu a simplifier plusieurs opérations de teinture, a produire quelques couleurs plus brillantes, plus solides et plus pénétrante dans la tissure des étoffes.
The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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It sounds good that some of the parvenus have volunteered to pay taxes.
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There is no such fawner on the aristocracy, if he has but a chance of getting any thing out of them, as a _parvenu_ by birth, a liberal in politics, and an Independent by "_religious persuasion_.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845
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In Brazil, though rich in luxuriant vegetable and animal life, there is no history – all is new and progressive, but vulgar and parvenu; whereas Syria, in her abomination of desolation, is the old land, and she teems with relics of departed glory.
The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton
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You rather liked parvenus: they had energy; they knew what they wanted.