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Parvenue
- adjective - characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position
- of or characteristic of a parvenu
Parvenus
- noun - a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class
Passerby
- noun - a person who passes by casually or by chance
Passeres
- noun - two names for the suborder of typical songbirds
Paste-Up
- noun - a composition of flat objects pasted on a board or other backing; "they showed him a paste-up of the book jacket"
Pasterns
- noun - the part between the fetlock and the hoof
Pathetic
- adjective - deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"
- inspiring mixed contempt and pity; "their efforts were pathetic"; "pitiable lack of character"; "pitiful exhibition of cowardice"
- inspiring scornful pity;
Patience
- noun - a card game played by one person
- good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
Patients
- noun - a person who requires medical care; "the number of emergency patients has grown rapidly"
- the semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted by the verb in the clause