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arriviste

[ar-ee-veest; Fr. a-ree-veest]

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noun, plural -vistes

[-veests; Fr. -veest] .

a person who has recently acquired unaccustomed status, wealth, or success, especially by dubious means and without earning concomitant esteem.

Origin:
1900–05; < French; see arrive, -ist

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arriviste (ˌæriːˈviːst, French arivist)

—n
	a person who is unscrupulously ambitious

[French: see arrive, -ist]

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arriviste

"pushy, ambitious person," 1901, from Fr. arriviste, from arriver "to arrive" (see arrive). The notion is of a person intent on "arriving" at success or in society.

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