social climber
Example Sentences
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Wharton’s relentless social climber, Undine Spragg, is named after the hair product that made her father his fortune.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
He is a vain social climber, easily fooled by his clever, beautiful young wife.
From Slate ● May 4, 2023
‘Barry Lyndon’ Ryan O’Neal stars as the titular 18th-century Irish rogue and social climber in Stanley Kubrick’s visually ravishing 1975 adaptation of Thackeray’s 19th-century novel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2022
This disconnect is represented most glaringly in Tom Wambsgans, a much-mocked social climber who married into the family, and effectively, the family business.
From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2022
Or was she an overly forward social climber?
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
