Careerist

//kəˈɹɪɹɪst//

"Careerist" in a Sentence (7 examples)

A lot of people think this politician is an unscrupulous careerist.

There are no careerist parents.

Tom is anything but a singleminded careerist.

Tom is anything but a narrow-minded careerist.

A careerist is a square-filler, a time-server. His talents and imagination have been circumscribed to perform managerial duties.

Liu Hsin's famous jibe seems to have been directed not against Yang Hsiung but against the intellectual limitations of contemporary careerists. […] Yang's writings and personal character did not appeal to the careerists of his time

You’ve got a lot of elite careerist women in the officer corps who have a certain set of desires usually related to their career.

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