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单词 parvenue
例句 parvenue
Even her underpants, she found — the kind of white cotton briefs her aunt and grandmother wore — marked her as a parvenue. ‘The Empathy Diaries’ Is a Beautiful Memoir About the Life of the Mind and the Life of the Senses 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z
On the other, Kim got away lightly in the parvenue stakes. Kim Kardashian, the Pink Panthers and the missing jewels 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z
Without counting that she might be demoralised by her new position, and add the mistakes of a parvenue to the foibles of the class into which she was admitted!' A Witch of the Hills, v. 1-2 2011-12-15T03:00:15.700Z
He could see Olive's face flush under the selfish rudeness of the parvenue, but the girl, repressing her impulse to reply heatedly, remained silent. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z
Incessantly occupied with the ambition to appear a true aristocrat, in whom one could not perceive the parvenue, she had no room for other thoughts. Felix Lanzberg's Expiation 2011-03-15T02:00:14.763Z
The first generation makes the millions, the second generation is parvenue, the third is arrivée. Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society 2010-12-20T17:12:16.420Z
The resignation of the charismatic and experienced politician leaves The Left, a hugely successful parvenue among German political parties, with a leadership vacuum. 2010-01-25T08:25:00Z
"Do you acknowledge yourself a parvenue that you rejoice at the entrance of any one special person into your doors?" The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life
Woman was not meant to rule, and when she is permitted to enjoy that privilege, she too often enjoys it en parvenue, loudly and indiscreetly. Her Royal Highness Woman
Like a true parvenue, she delighted in the elaborate court etiquette. Women of Early Christianity
The parvenue enjoyed the humiliations of the daughter of the German C�sars. Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty
His Madame Guichard is the most cheerfully vulgar type of the parvenue which any one ever dared to put upon the stage. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12
It is curious that we, offsprings of parvenue success, should be capable of such repudiation. The Kempton-Wace Letters
The girl showed great powers of duplicity, all the trickiness of a parvenue, to be quite frank. Clark's Field
It may safely be assumed that this was not done capriciously, as the modern parvenue makes for himself a heraldric device. The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion
There were no jarring notes or lavish, tawdry display, the pitfalls into which the parvenue and petit bourgeois invariably fall. When Dreams Come True
"The cheek of such a parvenue to wear that tiara." The Third Degree A Narrative of Metropolitan Life
"At all events it would be original; and, as originality is sure to produce an effect, the saucy little parvenue might afford to follow my advice, even though it came from an enemy." Fairy Fingers A Novel
Though a flirt and a pretty woman, she was a discreet parvenue, who did not entrap the affections of noble husbands. Tancred Or, The New Crusade
They are not a parvenue family, but date from the days of Richard III.  Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle
The idea of the comic parvenue is ancient. Shadows of the Stage
Forming an attachment with an old acquaintance of Madame Du Barry, he knew this parvenue courtezan, whom libertinism had elevated nearly to the throne. History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution
Without education and taste, the parvenue has small means of enjoying herself except by making a display which costs her even more anxiety and trouble than it does money. Town Life in Australia
But although the high-born and exemplary Duchess shrank from the anger of her young sovereign, the parvenue Marquise was far from feeling equally abashed. The Life of Marie de Medicis — Volume 1
The English men of fashion in Paris courted her, too, to the disgust of the ladies their wives, who could not bear the parvenue. Vanity Fair
"Ah! there is nothing like old families!" remarked Mrs. Million, with all the awkward feelings of a parvenue. Vivian Grey
That parvenue calling me by my Christian name! The Visits of Elizabeth
It is at any rate happier than that of the parvenue, unless the mere fact of being arrivée confers any special enjoyment. Town Life in Australia
But in this case his kinsmen and associates will not acknowledge her; the parvenue will not be received on any conditions whatever. From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan
I suppose he takes after his mother, who is but a parvenue, I've heard them say at the Towers.' Wives and Daughters
She was almost a parvenue in their old cultured milieu. Women in Love
This repugnance, stamped on her forehead, on her lips, and ill-disguised, was taken for the insolence of a parvenue. The Village Rector
And yet there was about her always and under all circumstances, an indescribable flavor of the parvenue Other People's Money
Some of our political houses are parvenue by pedigree; they hand on vulgarity like a coat of-arms. What's Wrong with the World
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