They are used by the parvenues and heartily despised by the very people whom they so obsequiously serve.
Mr. Snodgrass devotes a chapter to the parvenues at Newport.
For he not only works hard and suffers humiliation in getting his place in society, but after he is in he works just as hard, and with bitterness in his heart, to keep out other parvenues like himself.
My dear," she said, "it is in these situations sometimes the parvenues show the yellow streak, these and being touchy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parvenues" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
