Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Snobbery.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being a snob; the manners of a snob; snobbishness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Snobbery.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
snobbish attitude, particularly in relation toart or high culture.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the trait of condescending to those of lower social status
Etymologies
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Examples
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The reason no doubt was that the rentier-professional class was ceasing once and for all to have any real relationship with the soil; but at any rate there prevailed then, far more than now, a kind of snobbism of belonging to the country and despising the town.
Inside the Whale 1940
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RENTIER-professional class was ceasing once and for all to have any real relationship with the soil; but at any rate there prevailed then, far more than now, a kind of snobbism of belonging to the country and despising the town.
Collected Essays 1900
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Just one thing about this: I WANT ONE, just make it from an ultra rare record and it’s exactly the kind of snobbism I’m going for!!!
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Turn old 45’s into iPod cases 2007
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That's saying something because I'm not especially fond of street musicians, my thinking usually infused with equal amounts snobbism and guilt for not being a better person.
Street Singers Worth a Stop Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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They claimed I scared them off with a slight snobbism which, of course, was nothing but paralyzing shyness and lack of self esteem.
Michele Willens: Face It: The Prom Queen Then.... Michele Willens 2011
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They claimed I scared them off with a slight snobbism which, of course, was nothing but paralyzing shyness and lack of self esteem.
Michele Willens: Face It: The Prom Queen Then.... Michele Willens 2011
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It is a shame there is so much snobbism about Grenache.
Wine Future in Rioja – opening Pandora’s bottle of grenache | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009
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However, Ramsay's snobbism was such that he said, "The truth of the matter is your palate is in need of desperate work."
Michael Russnow: Hell's Kitchen 's Gordon Ramsay: It's All About Taste, and His Is no Better Than Ours Michael Russnow 2010
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There was no time for chitchat or any place for all the things in life Louisa despised—phoniness, snobbism, the shame of being poor.
Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010
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Take your petty bourgeois snobbism and go back to Serena, your adoring ingénue, India thought, fuming.
One Flight Up Susan Fales-Hill 2010
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