The parvenu was easily recognized in the gathering of aristocrats. From LearnThat.org.
The defense that they are merely copying the American parvenu is no justification. From Wordnik.com. [The Social Disability of the Jew] Reference
Mlle. de Montijo, used the very word "parvenu" in speaking of himself and of his family. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference
None was touched with that feigned agony which had too often deceived the public hope; and distance nowhere prevented the weight of the dreaded 'parvenu' from being felt. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
You would have sworn he had been a 'parvenu' of yesterday, yet he had been all his life in good society. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2] Reference
The house had been purchased during the Terror by the father of Mlle. Gamard, a dealer in wood, a kind of parvenu peasant. From Wordnik.com. [Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1] Reference
"Well," said Levy, with great kindness of manner, "I see I pain you; and though I am what my very pleasant guests would call a parvenu. From Wordnik.com. [My Novel — Complete] Reference
As yet, the new-made emperor was a parvenu amid his royal contemporaries. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878] Reference
Risler, with all his good-nature, was an egotist pure and simple, a parvenu. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Kolina had no feelings of the parvenu, and she was always a general favorite. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 7, August 12, 1850] Reference
Not only did he view Palin as a political parvenu, he viewed her as a puppet. From Wordnik.com. [Geoffrey Dunn: Wally Hickel and Sarah Palin's Betrayal] Reference
If that doesn't get over the message of what a parvenu Obama is by contrast, nothing will. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
This was a necessary move of the parvenu as money is the first and last word in the Balkans. From Wordnik.com. [The Secrets of the German War Office] Reference
In the orthodox parvenu style they amuse themselves with throwing handfuls of gold out of window. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Here a prince, scion of a noble house, there a parvenu, fresh from his latest stock-jobbing victory. From Wordnik.com. [The Secrets of the German War Office] Reference
William sensed — correctly — that Bertie saw him as bothersome and looked down on him as a parvenu. From Wordnik.com. [Castles of Steel]
In trying to use its parvenu power and push Google around, some government apparatchik has overplayed his hand. From Wordnik.com. [Google's Faustian Bargain Unravels] Reference
With credits dating back two decades (he backed the 1986 hit "9i Weeks"), Kimmel isn't quite a Hollywood parvenu. From Wordnik.com. [Hollywood's New Moguls] Reference
It long remained the obscure capital of a dynasty which the Guelfs and Habsburgs were pleased to look down upon as parvenu. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876] Reference
Everyone of any rank who employed the titles by which the parvenu monarch desired to be called, did so as a recognised jest. From Wordnik.com. [The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1] Reference
This makes them entirely different from thugs like Bernard Madoff, a parvenu scumbag none of us had even heard of six months ago. From Wordnik.com. [In Praise of Transgressions] Reference
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