Conspicuous consumption of imported products by vulgar parvenus is no substitute to true modernity and a functioning economy.
The Russian parvenus - many of them women - do not believe their state, their banks, or their compatriots.
It would have been easier for a young Guardsman to make his way into the Convent des Oiseaux--the fashionable convent in Paris--than for any of these parvenus to force an entrance into the Faubourg St. Germain.
In their own houses they were really des grands seigneurs, and quite incapable of treating their invited guests with the insolence that became the fashion among the Jewish parvenus during the reign of the "citizen king.
The nobility wanted girls with money to manure their lands, and theparvenus of to-day want the same to feather their nests.
These parvenus have all the vices of the great lords of other days without their elegance.
San Sebastian is a conglomeration of parvenus and upstarts from Pamplona, Saragossa, Valladolid, Chile and Chuquisaca, who are anxious to show themselves off.
Like other revolutionists and parvenus generally, Lerroux is a victim of the superstition of champagne.
One is much more likely to receive them on the fifth floor; and flatterers and parasites and parvenus don't disturb one here.
Parvenus who think that they may presume to go any length because they are millionaires!
You won't find many parvenus like us, who loan millions to kings, and whom great noblemen like Mora don't blush to receive at their table.
You may be sure some of the proud people and most of the parvenus of the Club were ready to blackball him.
If you think of all the bad qualities, the pettinesses and meannesses of all the parvenus you have ever met or heard of, you will have some sort of mental picture of a Yucatecan.
The pomposity of this race of parvenus would be amusing if it were not that they have the power to wreck your plans.
But when to mushroom millionaires is given the governance of an enslaved race, it would be nothing short of a miracle if the very finest and largest breed of parvenus was not produced.
It is a necessary consequence that all the rich and snobbish parvenus send their sons to the Jesuit middle and high schools.
Two parvenusaspiring to make a family seat of an earl's borough!
A droll world, and no wonder the parvenus want to upset it.
Later, when Amsterdam has inherited the commercial hegemony of Antwerp, the importance of the parvenus characterizes it not less clearly.
The fortunes acquired inn the wandering commerce by the parvenus of the eleventh and twelfth centuries soon transformed them into landed proprietors.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parvenus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
