snobbery
IPA: snˈɑbɝi
noun
- The property or trait of being a snob.
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Examples of "snobbery" in Sentences
- That's not a question of snobbery.
- I retract the imputation of snobbery.
- The first reeks of academic snobbery.
- But that might be my snobbery talking.
- I was then accused of reverse snobbery.
- There was an element of snobbery in this.
- Smells strongly of wine snobbery and jingoism.
- But fashion and snobbery entered into it as well.
- The song is a parody of social elitism and snobbery.
- This pronunciation can be the subject of some snobbery and reverse snobbery .
- Your East Coast intellectual and social snobbery is leaking out around the mask, old buddy.
- This snobbery is perhaps the last remaining vestige or outcrop of the once formidable massif of Victorian optimism.
- The snobbery is hateful, but you can see that Kipling - the poet of Empire would have no sympathy for Gordon Brown's idea.
- The snobbery is kept in place by those who work in the industry, and genre is exploited, as if for minerals, in order to fuel sales of, say, "post-modern" fiction.
- I do think there is a certain snobbery, especially in American literary criticism, that leads to the promotion of bloated, weak fiction, and that should be rightly condemned.
- All our intellectual snobbery is reserved for books; when it comes to the cinematic experience, we demand constant explosions, post-apocalyptic scenarios, lots of aliens/robots/asteroids, and/or large-scale natural disasters (with occasional exceptions made for arty French films, obvs).
- Jeremiah Wright apparently had some good things to say during Obama's early years at his church, which included both inner-city people and those who had made it from the ghetto to middle-class life: He encouraged his congregation to better themselves so they could rise out of poverty, but he also condemned "middleclassness", which he defined as snobbery and a superior attitude on the part of some middle-class people.
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