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social climber

noun as in upwardly social person

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The outgoing president rails almost daily against reporters, the middle class, businessmen, social climbers and individualists.

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What Glazer discovered at bedrock were not the lip-curling monsters of Hollywood’s Holocaust movies but social climbers looking to improve their status.

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But with those social climbers called the D.C.

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The season three episode “Chiantishire,” which takes place at Caroline’s wedding to an unabashed social climber, offers some insight into Shiv’s relationship with her mom.

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A couple of manipulators, a couple of social climbers.

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