Most journalist viewed the young senator as an upstart parvenu.
That parvenu along with his family became so arrogant and boastful with their sudden riches.
Everyone in town was a parvenu, so there was no great weight of tradition or social order with which to contend.
Amanda, the beautiful sister, can't forgive him for being the parvenu who saved her life.
Emma's friends considered her a parvenu because of her recent inheritance.
Fred was the perfect example of a parvenu; he had inherited millions of dollars from his father's shipping business and he refused to act like the snobby people in his town.
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