status seeker

He is not merely a status seeker in Vance Packard's sense of the term, or a simple showoff.

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.

In the Koprivnica area of Yugoslavia last spring, a D�sseldorf status seeker shelled out $12,500 for a 660-lb.

The professionalist is not a status seeker, for he has already arrived.