How to Use arriviste in a Sentence

arriviste

noun
  • The pretenders, the arrivistes, the people who go to be Seen.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 26 Oct. 2017
  • There was an ambitious arriviste, who smudged the line between confident and cocky.
    — Jon Wertheim and Jacob Feldman, SI.com, 27 June 2019
  • On Dance Moms, the Siwas carved out roles as tacky arrivistes with way too much ambition.
    — Jamie Lauren Keiles, Time, 22 Aug. 2019
  • And yet, the digital arrivistes could only gain so much traction with a broader customer base and needed a boost from tie-ins with old-school counterparts.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Rather than kicking out the arrivistes, shrewd politicians won elections by promising to bring services like water, electricity and mail to constituents.
    — Photographs By Norman Behrendt and • Text By Suzy Hansen Suzy Hansen, New York Times, 14 June 2017
  • Members of his Cabinet, by contrast, seem like gauche arrivistes, riding their boss’s coattails at great taxpayer expense.
    — Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Magazine, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Spectacle, arriviste or not, was a rarity this New York Fashion Week.
    — Ben Detrick, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Will the first regular shuttled past a familiar table filled with finance arrivistes on the walk of shame to the back room on a Wednesday turn right around and walk out, never to return ?
    — Richard E. Farley, Town & Country, 26 July 2015
  • The article, which describes old-fashioned Wasps feuding with glamorous arrivistes, is a safari of rich people behaving badly.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 16 July 2019
  • The Thiel fellows were ostensibly better-equipped than many of the arrivistes, with their $4,000 monthly stipends and their benefactor’s name behind them.
    — Tom Clynes, Newsweek, 22 Feb. 2017
  • Until then, Imelda suffered from a reputation on the international circuit as an unwelcome arriviste.
    — Ben Widdicombe, Town & Country, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Reginald Pole — a descendant of the once-ruling Plantagenets, who regard the Tudors as arrivistes — now spreads heresy and treason on the Continent.
    — Thomas Mallon, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2020
  • Even in the early days of the Quattrocento, contemporary chroniclers were already waxing bitter about these money-lending arrivistes with their boorish habits and their pretensions to dictatorship.
    — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Or—my personal favorite—Matthew Macfadyen as Shiv‘s arriviste, excruciatingly gauche boyfriend, Tom.
    — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 8 June 2018
  • Pfeiffer’s madcap turn is not a drag queen, but her graying red hair, pale skin, and low voice impersonate French art-film actress Isabelle Huppert, whom an American arriviste might envy as a model of haughtiness.
    — Armond White, National Review, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Certainly there’s a long and distinguished tradition of associating Jewish arrivistes with entrepreneurialism, avarice, and clannishness.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • The quasi-aristocratic status of leaders like Jay, and the aristocratic aspirations of arrivistes like Hamilton, give the society a veneer of elitism (the many Quaker outsiders in its ranks are, for the purposes of this indictment, forgotten).
    — Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 24 Oct. 2019

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