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someone who recently acquired power (or acts as though they did), and disrespects others

I move toward the young upstart, and he retreats.
Katherine Applegate -- The One and Only Ivan

upstart = someone who recently acquired power (or acts as though they did), and disrespects others

A black shroud fell over her vision and she lost consciousness, giving Redd the only advantage she needed to put an end to the upstart princess.
Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars
She says to Miss Barry, I hear a certain upstart from the lanes walked away from the post office exam.
Frank McCourt -- Angela's Ashes
Now here were these foreigner upstarts unmasking religion!
John Gardner -- Grendel
Kill this upstart for me, the Emperor was saying.
Frank Herbert -- Dune
The upstart pretensions of a young woman without family, connections, or fortune.
Jane Austen -- Pride and Prejudice
Gaea hates you above all others ... except perhaps for that upstart Jason Grace.
Rick Riordan -- The Son of Neptune
You've always been an upstart, and you've always been against me.'
Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
I said, "Listen, you upstart collection of semi-conductors, you are merely a minister-without-portfolio while I am Minister of Defense.
Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
As much as I dislike certain upstart demigods, it would not do for Olympus to fall.
Rick Riordan -- The Last Olympian
In medical school I have been befriended by an upstart neurologist, who believes I am acting out a great lifelong falsehood.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
The artist's a young upstart who wants to be a rock star or something, but he's the rage and everyone will be there.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
Even with a much more concealing mask, she would have recognized the upstart.
Sarah J. Maas -- Throne of Glass
In the French revolution of July 1830, and in the English reform agitation, these aristocracies again succumbed to the hateful upstart.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels -- The Communist Manifesto
I have quite a horror of upstarts.
Jane Austen -- Emma
Upstarting, he laid back his ears and eyed her.
Zane Grey -- Riders of the Purple Sage
'By putting an upstart's hire in his pocket?' said Gowan, frowning.
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
It was just all the upstarts who had turned the world on its head and unsettled the ways of decent living.
Flannery O'Connor -- A Good Man is Hard to Find AND OTHER STORIES
Bad enough mortals won our war for us, but then that young upstart, Percy Jackson—".
Rick Riordan -- The Lost Hero
What would a lord say—yes, or any other person of whatever condition —if he caught an upstart peasant with a dagger on his person?
Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

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