Crossword-Solution: PARVENU 7 letters, 75 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Word Word Type Definition
Parvenu n. An upstart; a man newly risen into notice.

We have 75 clues for the answer “PARVENU”

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Newly-minted individual? 1 answer
person newly risen to a position of power or wealth 1 answer
a newcomer, especially someone who is new to a social or economic class 1 answer
Upwardly mobile type 1 answer
Upstart parking on street almost grabbing king 1 answer
Ungraceful nouveau-riche type 1 answer
Societal newcomer 1 answer
One of the nouveaux riches 1 answer
Nouveaux riches member 1 answer
Awkward newcomer to success 1 answer
Aspiring climber 1 answer
Society neophyte. 2 answers
Person who has recently become wealthy 3 answers
A person who has recently become wealthy 3 answers
sniffish 4 answers
Nouveau-riche 4 answers
sniffy 5 answers
SUPERCILIOUS person 7 answers
toplofty 7 answers
Vulgarian 13 answers
nouveau riche 13 answers
profiteer 13 answers
DISCOURTEOUS person 14 answers
wealthy person 14 answers
CONDESCENDING person 14 answers
ARRIVISTE 15 answers
Opportunist 23 answers
Pretentious person 23 answers
blagueur 24 answers
Pretentious talker 25 answers
sexist 31 answers
gigman 31 answers
Conformist 32 answers
Newcomer 32 answers
precisian 32 answers
formalist 32 answers
Quibbler 34 answers
SMUG person 34 answers
Bluenose 34 answers
Puritan 34 answers
Prude 34 answers
dogmatist 35 answers
monomaniac 35 answers
pettifogger 35 answers
Social climber? 35 answers
Nit-picker 35 answers
Liar 35 answers
racist 36 answers
Lion 37 answers
Spoilsport 38 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERATE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PARVENU (5)

But even in our admonishment we were on his side; and as we distrustfully eyed these new arrivals, old Saturn himself seemed something of a parvenu.
The Golden Age Kenneth Grahame 2008
And it should be in no wise for show--the gross ostentation of the unlettered parvenu--but a genuine library, which should minister to his own individual culture.
The Market-Place Harold Frederic 2008
Their houses are no longer lay hermitages, and their opera boxes are regularly filled, but no foreigner is ever received, no ambitious parvenu accepted among them.
The Ways of Men Eliot Gregory 2008
The desire to shine by the splendor of one's trappings is the first idea of the parvenu, especially here in this country, where the ambitious are denied the pleasure of acquiring a title, and where official rank carries with it so little social weight.
Worldly Ways and Byways Eliot Gregory 2007
Golden apples are beautiful—I remember the lawless days of boyhood, when orchards in crimson and gold tempted me over fence and field—and, too, the merchant who has dethroned the planter is no despicable parvenu.
The Souls of Black Folk W. E. B. Du Bois 1996
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Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Slate, Universal.

Used 8 times in crossword archives (1979–2013).