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Synonyms for parvenu

a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class

characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position

of or characteristic of a parvenu

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[beaucoup moins que] Nous sommes parvenus a la 8 e edition, parce que nous sommes raisonnables dans notre demarche[beaucoup plus grand que]
Les elements de la brigade de recherche de la Gendarmerie nationale d'El Eulma, sont parvenus a demanteler un reseau de faussaires compose de six individus, ages de 29 a 58 ans, originaires d'El Eulma, Bougaa, M'Sila et Djelfa.
A slick, stylish drama, "Human Capital" starts as a class critique wrapped around a whodunit, and though the mystery elements have overtaken the social assessment by the final third, the pic remains an engrossing, stinging look at aspirational parvenus and the super-rich they emulate.
Nous sommes parvenus a reconstituer notre stock de reserves en devises, et ceci n'est plus un casse-tete pour moi.
Les elements de la Protection civile sont parvenus a maEtriser le feu alors que le conducteur, qui a ete legerement blesse, a ete transporte vers une clinique privee a Casablanca, precisent les memes sources, ajoutant que l'avion a ete remorque pour entretien et maintenance.
C'est vrai que les jeunes n'ont pas presente des substituts financiers a l'aide americaine mais ils sont parvenus, dans deux semaines seulement, a collecter 100 000 signatures soutenant l'idee de ne pas compter sur l'aide americaine.
Then these revolting parvenus spent another pounds 5,000 on alcohol at their hotel and demanded its dining room be cleared while the woman ate.
And this is where Hirsi Ali's catbird seat was no longer safe: even the West's most vociferous parvenus are no longer needed to continue an increasing frontal assault against non-white immigrants.
Despite the railing of a Phillip Stubbes against magistrates "in silks, velvets, satins, damasks, taffetas, and such like," splendid attire for legitimate courtiers was acceptable; for parvenus it was not.
Zweigenhaft and Domhoff examine both the barriers to full integration of all races, genders, and sexual orientations into what some of us still refer to as the "ruling class," and the characteristics of the parvenus within that class.
Flags do fly; and some of the early names such as Agnews, Sothebys, Cartier and Aspreys still provide the backcloth to some glitzy parvenus such as Versace and DKNY, the exuberant American clothes store, by Peter Merino Architects.
[beaucoup moins que] Les Etats-Unis et la Russie sont parvenus a clarifier la voie vers un cessez-le-feu en Syrie, mais les modalites pratiques doivent encore etre definies [beaucoup plus grand que], a declare vendredi dernier a Geneve le secretaire d'Etat americain John Kerry.