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A person whose main concern is for professional advancement, especially one willing to achieve this by any means.
as modifier‘a careerist politician’
‘How come they can't be able, well adjusted, successful, careerist Special Agents?’
‘Look at the changes in his party registrations, which even his mother thought were careerist and job-centered.’
‘These are men and women who work not off of political ideals or even insight, but rather are driven by careerist ambition and opportunist fear.’
‘Students today are more careerist than ever before.’
‘As Nick, Louis Lovett finds the perfect balance between feigned and real innocence, and between decency and the first signs of careerist deviousness.’
‘The forceful, careerist Hepburn keeps Tracy off-balance, speaking multiple languages, shielding political refugees, and adopting a Greek orphan.’
‘She has work she loves, as a community physician - not, you'll note, as a cold-hearted status-obsessed selfish careerist user, as professional women are always accused of being.’
‘The most intense resistance comes from women who, despite the promises of careerist feminism, remain reluctant to surrender so many of their personal urges to the promises of ecstatic work.’
‘What the film does do well is tell the story of this one man and capture the wider portrait of a profession where careerist opportunism has begun to count for more than old-fashioned ethics.’
‘But, anyone who thinks that careerist social climbers who work for giant media corporations run by billionaires aren't liberals to their bones just doesn't know what he's talking about.’
‘Amongst our current crop of careerist politicians, we simply don't have enough firebrands with a passionate commitment to pursuing genuine social change.’
‘There are many factors involved in the line-up of forces in the threatened split, including, no doubt, personal grudges and careerist ambitions.’
‘My first thoughts were to advise all my single friends to stay away from careerist husbands.’
‘Here we have self-obsessed careerist Lindsey, falling in love with the irresistibly sweet school teacher Ben (Fallon).’
‘Today, vocationally oriented students and careerist colleagues make it a chore.’
‘I didn't ask them why, but either morality or potential careerist reasons were likely.’
‘One of the realities of these worlds is the strategic exploitation of these essentialist identities as a means of personal leverage, power, and careerist gain.’
‘Politicians always have hidden careerist agendas, and are versed in the language of deceit.’
‘It'll be interesting to see what it's like with fun being at the top of the list rather than some kind of careerist lunacy, you know?’
‘As a matter of course, one did not turn down assignments: one responded without careerist calculation to the needs of the service.’