parvenuformaldisapproving
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Class & class-consciousness in general
anti-bourgeois
anti-snob
bougie
bourgeois
gentrify
go/come down in the worldidiom
go/come up in the worldidiom
heap
petty bourgeois
pleb
plebby
plebeian
the bottom of the heapidiom
the gentry
the petite bourgeoisie
the upper crust
underclass
ungenteel
ungentrified
upper class
Examples of arriviste
arriviste
His tormenters are usually untrustworthy temptresses, though occasionally they're authority figures who judge him as a criminal trespasser or a cultural
arriviste.
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He was described by his contemporaries as a very fat, extremely boring, overwhelmingly ambitious
arriviste.
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She is, after all, only a superficial, self-deluded
arriviste.
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