Sample sentences for NOUVEAU RICHE

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newly rich — usually used in an insulting manner

Ostentation by the nouveau riche is never appealing.
Margaret Peterson Haddix -- Uprising

It was the heyday of the nouveau riche, and a life of careless extravagance among the masters.
W. E. B. Du Bois -- The Souls of Black Folk
She wondered whether he was an ostentatious nouveau riche.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
She replied that such wastefulness was certainly a mortal sin and that God would punish all of them for spending on nouveau riche vulgarities what they should be giving to the poor.
Isabel Allende -- The House of Spirits
It's a rented house right along the Mississippi River, a house that screams Suburban Nouveau Riche, the kind of place I aspired to as a kid from my split-level, shag-carpet side of town.
Gillian Flynn -- Gone Girl
He had spent the go-go eighties hanging out with nouveau riche celebrities.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
"How does it feel to be nouveau riche?" he was asked on one occasion.
John Berendt -- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

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