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advenedizo
Being a parvenu; also, like, having the characteristics of, or associated with a parvenu.
Loss of money is far the worst, then comes ill-health, and then loss of reputation; loss of reputation is a bad third, for, if a man keeps health and money unimpaired, it will be g…
The Progressives were of the educated middle class, angry at the rule of parvenu financiers and industrialists.
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advenedizo
A person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class, especially through acquisition of wealth, privileges, or political authority but has not gained social acceptance by those within that new class.
But the favourite's power and influence provoke intense ill-feeling among other courtiers, who regard him as a sinister, usurping parvenu with ideas above his station, or perhaps e…
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