arriviste

ar·ri·viste (

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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]

a person who is unscrupulously ambitious

[French: see arrive, -ist]

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Noun

arriviste - a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class

nouveau-riche, parvenu, upstart

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] N → arribista mf

arriviste [ˌæriːˈviːst] (formal) n → arriviste m/f

arriviste

n → Emporkömmling 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.

PLAYFIELDS OF RAGING VANITIES by Mail Today (New Delhi, India)

Where Saratoga is about history and tradition in its unquestioned role as sacred keeper of American racing's flame, Del Mar is the arriviste, famously laid back and easygoing.

Zenyatta the California girl gives laid-back locals a scare; Nicholas ... by The Racing Post (London, England)

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.

Places in the Notebook by Febles, Eduardo A. / The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide

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