Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Snobs collectively, especially viewed as exercising or trying to exercise influence or social power.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Hybrid & Recent Snobs, collectively.
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- noun
snobs , collectively;snobbish behaviour or attitudes
Etymologies
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Examples
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Snobocracy: When "The Right People" Run Washington yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Snobocracy: When "The Right People" Run Washington'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Washington "snobocracy" decides, through its "establishment" media, what news, information and opinion is worthy of the public\'s attention.
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As Eric Alterman observed, notwithstanding their law degrees from Yale, and Bill Clinton's Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford, the snobocracy seemed to regard the new President as "some Ozark hick who failed to pay proper heed to their superior social grace and aristocratic breeding."
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The snobocracy is typified by veteran pundit, David Broder.
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Prate as we may of democracy, we must admit, if we are to be honest with ourselves, that this sad old world is a snobocracy.
Kindred of the Dust 1918
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When it appeared certain that she would bear off the honor, the snobocracy of Chillicothe, furious at being "trun down" by a working girl, appealed to Halliwell to exclude her from the contest, and this miserable parody of God's masterpiece promptly wired that her business occupation was an insuperable barrier.
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These pitiful sheets, which are belittling Miss Whitney to ingratiate themselves with the snobocracy of Kansas City, are entirely destitute of shame.
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I was at that time the editor of the Era in this city, and wrote an article on West Point and snobocracy which you may remember reading.
Henry Ossian Flipper The Colored Cadet at West Point Flipper, Henry O 1878
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I was at that time the editor of the Era in this city, and wrote an article on West Point and snobocracy which you may remember reading.
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The snobocracy could hardly sleep nights for fear that Lincoln at a state dinner might put sugar and cream in his cold consommé.
Comic History of the United States Bill Nye 1873
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You will not surely live to solicit (as many a fine fellow, alas! did but last year) the votes, not even of the people, but merely of the snobocracy, on the ground of your having neither policy nor principles, nor even opinions, upon any matter in heaven or earth?
Prose Idylls, New and Old Charles Kingsley 1847
hernesheir commented on the word snobocracy
The antithesis of mobocracy. Snobs vs. the mobs. Sounds familiar these days.
December 18, 2010