How to Use social climber in a Sentence

social climber

noun

• Blame the social climbers on the board of Ruthie’s museum.
  — Joanne Kaufman, WSJ, 23 May 2018
• The shameless social climber was confronted and bowed out of the group.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 25 June 2019
• Prince Harry is a depressed man-child who is married to a social climber.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2021
• The novel once again featured socialites, social climbers and high society’s help in the cast.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Nov. 2017
• No, this social climber climbed right off the battlefield, hosed off, changed into civvies, and rolled onto Rodeo Drive.
  — Frank Markus, Car and Driver, 9 Sep. 2023
• The space in between provides this shameless social climber a whirlwind tour of all the fame, fortune and romance a modern city can offer.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Sep. 2021
• There was, no doubt, some bigotry at play in the press’ assessment of al-Fayed as a desperate social climber who couldn’t quite grasp the elusive rules by which the upper class live.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 9 Nov. 2022
• In the mid aughts, the British tabloids frequently painted the Middletons as advantageous social climbers.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2023
• But Gatsby also comes to mind, as does Zelig, popping up in every corner of the culture; even Rastignac, the ceaseless social climber of several Balzac novels.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 19 July 2022
• From a very young age, Florence—social climber, businesswoman, grande horizontale, patron of the arts—perfected the art of filling the hours of her lovers.
  — Caroline Moorehead, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2018
• Slavery and the American Revolution, notes of a social climber, monastic distractions, a French thriller and more.
  — Harold Holzer, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2023
• The second is a series of apologies and excuses for a tax cheat, voyeur-sadist, bad son, skinflint, publicity hound, social climber, shopaholic.
  — Stephen Metcalf, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2020
• As for his latest role as manipulative and entitled social climber Adam Pratt in season 4 of You.
  — Brianne Tracy, Peoplemag, 1 Apr. 2023
• Tomlinson hazards that, for a social climber, hunting with aristocrats was that era’s version of golfing with C.E.O.s.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2020
• As Weisberg point out, it was written by Lord Chesterfield, a scheming social climber who never intended for his correspondences with his son Philip to be published.
  — Jackie Mansky, Smithsonian, 19 Apr. 2018
• Upon Ramona's return to the table, Sonja responds to the first conversation prompt, which sends her spiraling on a rant about how Ramona is a social climber with no authentic purpose.
  — Mary Sollosi, EW.com, 20 Aug. 2021
• Born into a humble family, this ambitious social climber married the brother of Pope Innocent X.
  — Pamela McCourt Francescone, Travel + Leisure, 17 Mar. 2021
• Because Odette spends her evenings at Madame Verdurin’s, Swann stoically endures the company of that supercilious social climber and her sycophantic hangers-on.
  — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2022
• Rodolfo immediately dismisses Patrizia as a gold digger, a déclassé social climber who can’t tell a Picasso from a Klimt.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2021
• And with three skilled actresses at the film’s center, characters that could so easily be reduced to familiar stereotypes — the crazy one, the conniving one, the social climber — are instead imbued with humanity.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 21 Nov. 2018
• The rituals associated with the horse race in Louisville — including sipping mint juleps while wearing opulent attire — are irresistible for many social climbers.
  — Bill Brownlee, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2024
• Jenny is no cynical social climber—the connection is felt both ways; her devotion is genuine—but Hazzard cleverly paints her aspirations in terms of her surroundings.
  — Hillary Kelly, The New Republic, 4 Jan. 2023
• The papers also painted Carole as an advantageous social climber.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2023
• Our research shows that from a psychological standpoint, social climbers fall into six basic personality types.
  — Dirk Wittenborn and Jazz Johnson, Town & Country, 10 Oct. 2014

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024