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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