The supreme need of the arriviste is to be able to disown and forget those who have helped him so far.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cruel and Unusual] Reference

There's even a poem about the "arriviste" pronunciation GRIM-iss.    From Wordnik.com.  [Go west, young man, WEST!] Reference

"In many ways, he is the classical 'arriviste' in the good sense of the word.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

A local in Westchester County uses the word "arriviste" in a sentence explaining how Richard Gere cut down 200 trees in the neighbourhood without permission.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edmonton Sun] Reference

It must have seemed like a good idea at one time, back in the days when we didn't want any actors, divorced bounders or the kind of arriviste who had to buy his own furniture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sport news, comment and results | guardian.co.uk] Reference

CUCA has a history of being full of arriviste oddballs.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Evening in Cambridge] Reference

The guy is such an arriviste and all-round aggressive creep.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Yushan, in winter So how then, did this 3,952-meter-high arriviste.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taiwan's Greatest Ascent] Reference

Nothing comes to mind but the obvious, the acceptance that any arriviste craves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sunil Sharan: Will India Win Coveted UN Seat?] Reference

Was there a risk that the ancienne noblesse would regard me as a trifle arriviste?.    From Wordnik.com.  [To the Manor Bought] Reference

His arriviste Britishness has shown how conscious he was of the need for a English majority.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference

Trust me, the pioneer Island families don't truck with arriviste nonsense like yours. ktstine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Manhattanization of Mercer Island « PubliCola] Reference

The reason is simple enough: The perpetual arriviste is condemned to a perpetual adolescence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shame of No Shame: Fawning, Sniping in Media Land] Reference

The latter has been portrayed as a 35-year-old arriviste who has only lately alighted on the world of football.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fifa's new transfer tracking system is bad news for Manchester City | Digger] Reference

People who put their initials on shirt pockets or cuffs risk being labeled old-fashioned or, worse, arriviste tacky.    From Wordnik.com.  [TIP SHEET] Reference

J'étais déjà pas membre de son fan-club c'est pas cette initiative arriviste qui va me le rendre plus sympathique.    From Wordnik.com.  [Le Web 3 et Sarko — Climb to the Stars] Reference

Yet surprise and dismay greeted FDR's appointment of the wealthy arriviste Joseph P. Kennedy as the SEC's first chairman.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tale of Two Fine Roosevelts] Reference

Now, the Muslim world is just getting to know Chinese power; we cannot yet assess how the East Asian arriviste will be received.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beijing's Islamic Complex] Reference

Joan West had been modern about twenty years ago, but was now regarded by the young arriviste artists as completely old-fashioned.    From Wordnik.com.  [At Bertram's Hotel]

This election is about sweaters, leadership, the two kinds of strong, men with matching grey hair and blue ties, and a female arriviste.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference

Regarded by the media and many NFLers as an arriviste, Snyder lavished money on free agents and went through three coaches in three years.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Ain't No Low Profile'] Reference

Michaelis, on whose name they all poured such withering contempt, as a little mongrel arriviste, and uneducated bounder of the worst sort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Chatterley's Lover] Reference

If he was the quintessential Parisian (in his autobiography, he describes himself as “a Parisian from the heart of Paris”), she was the fiercely ambitious arriviste.    From Wordnik.com.  [The King Is Dead] Reference

Oh, how nouveau riche, arriviste, tacky - is that what you're thinking?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gawker: Valleywag] Reference

Johnny, Johnny-come-lately also means an arriviste or self-seeking person.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 1] Reference

Some see him as a jumped-up arriviste who, when the going gets tough, gets dirty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pitpass - the latest hottest F1 & A1 GP news] Reference

Fire was here long before arriviste plants like grasses; it pre-dated the first flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Opinion] Reference

He was stoical on the subject of the arriviste behaviour of local rivals Manchester City.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top stories from Times Online] Reference

That May she withdrew from a match against a 16-year-old arriviste named Maria Sharapova.    From Wordnik.com.  [TrinidadExpress Today's News] Reference

Heseltine was an arriviste, and therefore the "wrong" type of person to be in the Tory government.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

This is like saying that a nouveau riche arriviste is a member in good standing of the upper class.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ace of Spades HQ] Reference

No telling if any of these arriviste electric carmakers will ever be heard from again; only time will tell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wheels] Reference

Thus, unlike the commercially arriviste Robert, she despised Warhol: 'I hated the soup, and felt little for the can.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

He had the educated conscience of the arriviste with reference to the social order from which he himself had sprung.    From Wordnik.com.  [LewRockwell.com] Reference

Of course when we HAD a president who grew up "just like us", the media derided him as an arriviste who didn't belong.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brilliant at Breakfast] Reference

Using familiar French terms we may express this more clearly by saying that not every arrivé was at first an arriviste.    From Wordnik.com.  [Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy] Reference

The final acts of Thomas Cromwell's tale, as the arriviste fixer who opened every door for his master Henry VIII, remain untold.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference