social climber

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noun

a person who attempts to gain admission into a group with a higher social standing.

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Origin of social climber

First recorded in 1920–25

OTHER WORDS FROM social climber

social climbing, noun

Words nearby social climber

social bookmarking, social capital, Social Chapter, Social Charter, social class, social climber, social construct, social contract, social control, Social Credit, social dancing

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How to use social climber in a sentence

Maurizio’s father, Rodolfo, did not approve of Reggiani’s social background and believed she was a social climber and opted not to attend the couple’s wedding.
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He finished second in 2008 behind John McCain, and maintains a reservoir of good will among Republican social conservatives.
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Where the force generating those threats is a widespread, self-sustaining, and virulent social movement?
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The TVA, a federally owned and chartered electric power provider, is a New Deal legacy just like Social Security.
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Social media forces us to not only be vulnerable for our partner but for the whole world.
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One blames black Americans as a race; the other, racism as a social structure.
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All over the world the just claims of organized labor are intermingled with the underground conspiracy of social revolution.
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To others the fierce desire for social justice obliterates all fear of a general catastrophe.
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And our views of poverty and social betterment, or what is possible and what is not, are still largely conditioned by it.
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Our social life is aimless without it, we are a crowd without a common understanding.
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And an educational movement is more tenacious than any other sort of social or political movement whatever.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

British Dictionary definitions for social climber

social climber

noun

a person who seeks advancement to a higher social class, esp by obsequious behaviourSometimes shortened to: climber

Derived forms of social climber

social climbing, noun

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social climber

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