status seeker
Example Sentences
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He is not merely a status seeker in Vance Packard's sense of the term, or a simple showoff.
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In the Koprivnica area of Yugoslavia last spring, a D�sseldorf status seeker shelled out $12,500 for a 660-lb.
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Commuterland, derided by cartoonists and deplored by sociologists as the preserve of the dull-spirited status seeker, is given by Cheever's fables the dignity of the classical theater.
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The professionalist is not a status seeker, for he has already arrived.
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