snobbish
IPA: snˈɑbɪʃ
adjective
- Having the property of being a snob; arrogant and pretentious; smugly superior or dismissive of perceived inferiors.
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Examples of "snobbish" in Sentences
- It's not just calling someone "snobbish," as Westmoreland claims.
- It might not be hard to frame this as a kind of snobbish bullying.
- There was, they felt, “a certain snobbish and faddish ‘interest’ in Negroes.”
- Who is the nobleman holding his boots out of the hotel window -- an act which the Snob very properly declined to classify as snobbish?
- Dimly it had dawned upon her more than once that Rags regarded certain speeches and ways of hers as "snobbish" -- speeches and ways which to her had seemed aristocratic.
- We know that she impressed those who knew her as absorbed in snobbish ambitions and petty resentments, and that she had as her chief ingratiating tribute a talent for mimicry, which is often the sport of an unloving and derisive soul.
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