A giddy, social-climbing bourgeoise, she believes she can become.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beau Defeated: or, The Lucky Younger Brother] Reference

WHEN are you going to admit to being a social-climbing sycophant?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Kristol: ‘Bush Should Pardon Libby. He Should Do it Now’] Reference

He values true friendship over blind ambition and social-climbing.    From Wordnik.com.  ['New Moon' polls: Switching teams? Bella really the best role model? | EW.com] Reference

But Obama himself is still an overrated, social-climbing patrician phony.    From Wordnik.com.  [Your Right Hand Thief] Reference

"But Obama himself is still an overrated, social-climbing patrician phony.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Your Right Hand Thief] Reference

She also had a long run as the social-climbing Rebecca Hotchkiss on Passions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exclusive: Andrea Evans Returns to The Bold and the Beautiful] Reference

Sensing a social-climbing opportunity, I shamelessly asked if I could attend.    From Wordnik.com.  [When a Billion Chinese Jump] Reference

The middle-class girl from Berkshire must atone for her social-climbing sins.    From Wordnik.com.  [I do hope Kate Middleton has a cunning plan] Reference

Guy Francon, the social-climbing, mediocre architect, was inspired by her boss.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mogul Request Live] Reference

Especially supposedly social-climbing ex-tennis players from a poor Irish background?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woody Allen’s Match Pointless « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog] Reference

Nothing to be skipped over in the name of some misguided intellectual social-climbing.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Write in 700 Easy Lessons] Reference

Worse, it condemns him to a penurious old age that embarrasses his social-climbing son.    From Wordnik.com.  [Capital Pundits Parodied: An Anti-Mensch's Faux Memoirs] Reference

James called himself an artist, and sniffed at Beaton as a mere social-climbing artisan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The big picture: models in Charles James gowns, New York, 1948] Reference

They didn't die to obtain an invitation to some White House dinner for a social-climbing publisher.    From Wordnik.com.  [IRAQ: THE WORLD'S DEADLIEST PLACE FOR JOURNALISTS] Reference

Cassidy, nodding, said, 'Let her worry that we'll publish her secret and ruin her social-climbing life.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elvis Latte] Reference

Today rather than social-climbing, the stars are millionaires out slumming, prospecting for fool's good.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brooks Peters: Fame Fatale] Reference

Although, the "social-climbing patrician" description as applied to Obama seems a little extra-nasty on your part.    From Wordnik.com.  [Your Right Hand Thief] Reference

The awful Katie is the daughter of a remote, Botox-dispensing dermatologist mother and a social-climbing lawyer father.    From Wordnik.com.  [Supplication Process] Reference

I suspect he tried to blackmail her; the social-climbing Nunley may have thought of divorcing Anne and marrying Felicia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grave Surprise]

Even Joanie saw, in the sudden frozen immobility of her hosts, that she'd committed the worst sort of social-climbing blunder.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elvis Latte] Reference

People use it because it looks more kindly on these desires than such near synonyms as ambitious, covetous, or social-climbing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Word Court] Reference

Gossipy and breathless, "The Sisters" is nonetheless a fascinating portrait of three social-climbing women and the bargains they made.    From Wordnik.com.  [Books About High Society] Reference

But unlike, say, sports cars, Thoroughbreds or other totems of success, even expensive cigars are accessible to the social-climbing masses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blowing Smoke] Reference

Golf, after all, is very suburban, and has this middle-blow flavor to it really when you think of its role as a social-climbing institution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Class Begins in...] Reference

The agency would like to have a word with the social-climbing duo, however.    From Wordnik.com.  [E! Online (US) - Top Stories] Reference

If her name recalls Becky Sharp, the social-climbing lass from William Thackeray's.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Press] Reference

But if Shevell isn't a hugely unpopular, social-climbing you-know-what, Paul will be fine.    From Wordnik.com.  [fuseblog] Reference

She had the lead role, as Claire, a social-climbing werewolf riding a westbound stagecoach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aspen Times - Top Stories] Reference

She had the lead role, as Claire, a social-climbing werewolf riding a west-bound stagecoach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aspen Times - Top Stories] Reference

Queen Mother - an expression of contempt for Mick's social-climbing and faintly effeminate manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

Mr. Molina as the social-climbing father regularly steals the show, probably because he's given the best lines.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines] Reference

Any suggestions for a rescued social-climbing feline with more charm and affection than should be allowed by law?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bilerico Project] Reference

Wendy (Cristine Reyes) is a social-climbing promo girl who dreams of hooking up with a wealthy lawyer (Rafael Rosell).    From Wordnik.com.  [Twitch] Reference

Gionfriddo's title character is inspired by Becky Sharp, the 1840's social-climbing anti-heroine of William Makepeace Thackeray's satirical.    From Wordnik.com.  [BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content] Reference