arriviste

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Sitting in disapproval is copy editor Alison (Kirsten Dunst), who is disgusted by Sidney when he's a boorish arriviste, and even more disgusted when he sells his soul to open those seven doors.

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  1. noun A person who has recently attained high position or great power but not general acceptance or respect; an upstart.
  2. noun A social climber; a bounder.

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  • Related: The Boston Herald's Tom Cruise: "It was very difficult for me to see, not just in the American press but also in the Spanish press, how they saw her as an arriviste." —  GreenCine Daily
  • A shared contempt for these arriviste oafs unites the Nassau summitteers perhaps even more than our shared fondness for a snifter of well-behaved armagnac VSOP. —  Transterrestrial Musings
  • No telling if any of these arriviste electric carmakers will ever be heard from again; only time will tell. —  Wheels
  • Sitting in disapproval is copy editor Alison (Kirsten Dunst), who is disgusted by Sidney when he's a boorish arriviste, and even more disgusted when he sells his soul to open those seven doors. —  JAM! Showbiz
  • And yes, as a relative newcomer to the green movement, I will admit that there is a little bit of an arriviste quality to those of us riding in on the most recent green tsunami. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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  1. French, from arriver, to arrive, from Old French ariver; see arrive.
 

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