Words and phrases that have a meaning related to parvenu: (127 results)
Often used in the same context:
arriviste, aristo, aristocracy, prigs, nouveau riche, flatterer, noblesse oblige, lecher, prole, sybarite, dandyism, popinjay, princeling, aristocrats, barrow boy, poshness, roundheads, superciliousness, plutocrats, gentry, poncy, guttersnipe, ancien regime, patrician, royalism, gauche, snooty, latterday, philistine, petite bourgeoisie, solipsist, dilettante, nabob, toadying, antediluvian, anglophilia, sneery, freebooting, plebian, lumpenproletariat, petit bourgeois, yorkist, spiv, scallywag, lumpen, knavery, virago, jackanapes, neurasthenic, epicene, nostalgist, viscount, rapaciousness, landed gentry, bourgeois, booboisie, gulling, vulgarian, dowdiness, termagant, poltroon, wastrel, snobbery, riche, bolshy, foppery, sophisticates, backwoodsman, puritanism, louche, quondam, rotters, sassenach, cuckolds, fops, imposture, rapscallion, etonian, plebeian, bolshie, plantagenets, sensualist, baronetcy, churls, sponger, teutonic, poseur, slattern, harlotry, sophist, uppity, tosspot, gorgon, boulevardier, knave, male chauvinist, rackety, maidenly, voluptuary, pater, doddery, upstart, upstarts, snobs, businesswoman, demagogue, parvenus, adventurer, dandy, fop, amateur, buffoon, businessman, pretenders, savant, swindler, aristocrat, artisan
More specific:
climber, junior, social climber
Appears in the definition of:
parvenue
More general:
disagreeable person, unpleasant person
Synonyms:
Also try:new, nouveau-riche, pretentious
— Adjectives for parvenu: rich, wealthy, vulgar, est, mere, ambitious, political, social, typical, little, intellectual, more...
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