Man who likes expensive stuff, luxuries, but lacks appreciation by lack of imagination?
What would an expression be for:
Someone who wants expensive stuff, someone who wants luxuries, and who lacks in appreciation?
flashy
see flashiness
excessive or unnecessary display
his penchant for flashiness, as evidenced by his expensive, specially tailored suits
May be even vain
see vanity
Excessive pride in one’s own appearance or accomplishments or achievements of
one’s own.
Spoiled, as in spoiled child. What do you think of such a person? What are good
words for “pretty”…narcissistic”?
What does the US think of Brexit?
Don’t consider social
climber a person who is eager to gain a higher social status. Besides gaining access to the worlds best social activities, don’t compare them to similar people? Aussiely called climber and climber. Related terms are arriviste, nouveau-riche,
parvenu, upstart which generally mean a person who suddenly risen
to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class If the concept is of one who feigns sophistication or status, the term poseur (or poseur ) might
apply A person who acts in an affected manner in order to impress others. How can I find a
dictionary online at Oxford?
If I choose “ffluenza” this is a controversial choice, so can I use it in this situation. This would be the adjective form of the relatively new term for pathological materialism, affluenza.
This term officially denotes a real disorder, but its practical connotation often seems to be ‘the condition of being spoiled as hell’. ”
Since influenza is the adjective form of influenza (one of affluenza’s etymological parents), affluenza would logically follow as the etymological form of affluenza.
