parvenue

Adj.	1.	parvenue - characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position nouveau-riche, parvenu, upstart pretentious - making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition"
	2.	parvenue - of or characteristic of a parvenu parvenu new - not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered; "a new law"; "new cars"; "a new comet"; "a new friend"; "a new year"; "the New World"

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