“He presented himself as a supremely patrician figure, so different from the vulgar parvenues of the Thatcher cabinet.”

“The parvenu arrived at the prestigious party, flaunting their newfound wealth and looking down upon others with a snobbish attitude.”

“Do you acknowledge yourself a parvenue that you rejoice at the entrance of any one special person into your doors?”

“There were no jarring notes or lavish, tawdry display, the pitfalls into which the parvenue and petit bourgeois invariably fall.”

“The girl showed great powers of duplicity, all the trickiness of a parvenue, to be quite frank.”

“He presented himself as a supremely patrician figure, so different from the vulgar parvenues of the Thatcher cabinet.”

“It sounds good that some of the parvenus have volunteered to pay taxes.”

“This lingual magniloquence is proverbial of American parvenus.”

“Through this easy gap emerged into life the rich supernumeraries who drove their tilburys, dressed well, and wore moustachios, all of them as impudent as parvenus.”