Sample Sentences fornouveau riche (editor-reviewed)
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Despite her generous donations to local charities, the real estate developer was dismissed as nouveau riche by society matrons who objected to her bold fashion choices and lack of 'pedigree.'nouveau riche = newly rich
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The country club members dismissed the immigrant doctor as nouveau riche simply because she earned her wealth through hard work rather than inheriting it, despite her quiet generosity and impeccable manners.nouveau riche = newly wealthy person (used dismissively by those with inherited wealth)
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The tech millionaire's nouveau riche mansion featured solid gold toilets, a life-size statue of herself in the foyer.nouveau riche = someone who flaunts new wealth vulgarly
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"How does it feel to be nouveau riche?" he was asked on one occasion.† (source)
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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.† (source)
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Ostentation by the nouveau riche is never appealing.† (source)
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She wondered whether he was an ostentatious nouveau riche.† (source)
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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.† (source)
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It was the heyday of the nouveau riche, and a life of careless extravagance among the masters.† (source)
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He had spent the go-go eighties hanging out with nouveau riche celebrities.† (source)
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