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Example sentences for: social-climbing

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Graham's portrait of her mother, the social-climbing, booze-hounding, domineering Agnes, makes a persuasive case for matricide.
Pols such as Newt Gingrich love Johnson's reactionary revisionism (he adores Nixon, despises Kennedy), but Johnson's books are riddled with errors (he says Edison invented the telephone), and the English think him a social-climbing loony.
An update of the fairy tale, with Drew Barrymore as the maligned princess and Anjelica Huston as the social-climbing stepmother.