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
Maxine is a desperate social climber who will literally climb walls to enter the exclusive Palm Royale country club, a candy-colored oasis of indulgent leisure and unbridled envy.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2024
He is a vain social climber, easily fooled by his clever, beautiful young wife.
From Slate • May 4, 2023
Coon plays Bertha Russell, a relentless and monomaniacal social climber who, a century later, could have been an especially coldblooded CEO of a Fortune 500 firm.
From Washington Post • Jan. 23, 2022
As Joanne Kaufman reported in the Wall Street journal, Ms. Pittman was known in certain elevated circles more as a social climber than mountain climber.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
