social climber

as in elitist

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Recent Examples of social climber Turning Merchant Ivory into eminent Victorians rather than complexly conflicted social climbers actually distances them from us, and that’s merely for Millennial convenience. Armond White, National Review, 4 Sep. 2024 The sprawling period drama chronicles the great conflict between old money elites and new money social climbers in New York's glittering Gilded Age. Shania Russell, EW.com, 12 Aug. 2024 Instead, Wiig takes center stage as Maxine Simmons, an ambitious social climber in the rarefied Palm Beach society. Jordan Riefe, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2024 But now, such societies tended to attract eccentrics and social climbers, people who were either all-in on the promise of attaining universal secrets or simply there to hob-nob. Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 12 June 2024 See All Example Sentences for social climber
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elitist
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  • His international experience, critics say, is running in rarefied circles like the World Economic Forum in Davos, painting him as an out-of-touch global elitist who has not spent any time dealing with ordinary people.
    Matina Stevis-Gridneff, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
  • To me, these responses play right into Trump’s hands, reinforcing his claims that liberals are out-of-touch elitists.
    Joanna Dee Das, The Conversation, 4 Apr. 2025

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“Social climber.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/social%20climber. Accessed 29 May. 2025.

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