parvenuism

1. behavior or attitudes typical of one who has recently acquired wealth or social position.
2. the state or quality of being a parvenu or upstart. — parvenu, n., adj.

See also: Behavior

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Bojetu does not condemn the male sex, but the prevailing principle that assigns to it extremely destructive properties: dominance and the aggression connected with it, parvenuism, materialism, the preference of rationality over emotionality and so on.

Otherness and the contemporary Slovene novel

I am not so hot about Patmore as a poet--though there are worse--and Connolly is a jevvy--and has their typical mixture of wisdom, vanity, knowledge, vacuity, culture, parvenuism. But he has the right bear by the tail, no doubt about it.

To D.S. Savage

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