;Posted on 04/09/2014 5:32:23 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree
Word For The Day, Wednesday, April 9, 2014-- arriviste
;In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
arriviste[ar-ee-veest; French a-ree-veest]
noun
1. a person who has recently acquired unaccustomed status, wealth, or success, especially by dubious means and without earning concomitant esteem
2. a person who is unscrupulously ambitious
Origin: 1900–05; < French; see arrive, -ist
Related forms
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The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
Been hanging around with Dave? Pedant ;-)
So 50 grand is a detail? ;)
Yep, when it’s not mine, and in the context of their voracious looting...certainly ;-)
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