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arriviste

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ar·ri·viste  (-r-vst)
n.
1. A person who has recently attained high position or great power but not general acceptance or respect; an upstart.
2. A social climber; a bounder.

[French, from arriver, to arrive, from Old French ariver; see arrive.]

arriviste [ˌæriːˈviːst (French) arivist]
n
a person who is unscrupulously ambitious
[French: see arrive, -ist]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.arriviste - a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that classarriviste - a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class
disagreeable person, unpleasant person - a person who is not pleasant or agreeable
social climber, climber - someone seeking social prominence by obsequious behavior
junior - term of address for a disrespectful and annoying male; "look here, junior, it's none of your business"

arriviste
noun upstart, would-be, climber, social climber, status seeker, adventurer or adventuress, parvenu or parvenue a woman regarded by some as a pushy arriviste
Translations
arriviste [ˌærɪˈviːst] Narribista mf
arriviste [ˌæriːˈviːst] (formal) narriviste m/f
arriviste
nEmporkömmling m, → Parvenü m (geh)


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For the arriviste still not comfortable in high society, it helps to have distractions around to establish his presence.
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Love is in the Parisian air in Edmund White's "Skinned Alive," in which an American writer living in Paris details his love affair with an arriviste named Jean-Loup, a young man from Bordeaux.
 
 
 
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