How To Use Snob In A Sentence

He could spot hypocrisy, pomposity, smugness, snobbery, tomfoolery and turpitude from miles away.
Pictures like "Snoball," which portrays a snow-cone shack with a yellow topped cone is softened by his gentle sense of humor: it is almost a "Pop" painting. John Seed: Rod Penner: Rust on Poles, Crumbling Asphalt, Light Hitting the Grass (PHOTOS)
Horse riding suffers from the taint of elitism and snobbery which is a legacy of the past.
Favorite designer labels cater to hot bods and rich snobs Bauble Head Site Feed
The worst thing about Britain is that so many people are disenfranchised by price and snobbery. Times, Sunday Times

But these tedious arguments have more to do with inverted snobbery than progressive values. Times, Sunday Times
I wish I had, because my dread about being trapped with cruise-ship bozos would have been replaced by a more accurate dread of being trapped with ocean-liner snobs.
I like riding clubs, and I don't think they are snobby at all.
After that came a fine example of chu-toro (No. 2 on the sushi-snob toro scale, above maguro and below the hyperdelicate o-toro), which Seki flavored with a mild wasabi sauce.
Without missing a beat, the taller man handed Dickie a beer (apparently it was not too early to drink), and began challenging his opponent to distinguish between the genuine ascetic and what he termed the conspicuously nonconsuming -poverty snob. Villa Incognito
He was from Barker, she learnt, forced to go to the private school much like she was, sharing her hatred for the snobs of their area.
You've heard that some of the girls at school think you're snobby and stand-offish.
Most of the kids are rich, snobby preps, which we despise, and hate everyone who isn't like them.
For some reason - whether through snobbery, ignorance, or the peculiarly British disease of self-deprecation - this valuable national treasure has been systematically trivialised and ridiculed over the years, to such an extent that today it remains almost unknown.
There is no indication that this starchy, snobby suburban bourgeoise knew anything about cooking. Times, Sunday Times
The common representation of fox hunters and those who support it, is that they are toffee-nosed snobs who ride around the country in their cold-hearted way, thinking they own the place.
He dismisses such talk as inverse snobbery. Times, Sunday Times
Kirk Douglas, surrounded by the toast of young, snobby elite, was seen at hot Chelsea nightclub Aria.
Madeline was a lush and a wine snob, a vegetarian, and a dreadful cook (once she had poached a thick hunk of cod to just that degree of lukewarmness that had reanimated the little white worms inside).
Independent private school kids take expensive crammer lessons to help pass these stringent snobby entrance exam tests.
Like geeky music snobs sneering as their favourite indie band climbs the charts, they view success as a sign of impurity, popularity as poison.
Their intellectual snobbery seems limitless. The Times Literary Supplement
The author labels Fleming's creation a "snob" for his obsession with top-of-the-market brands, "with the result that in the later books Bond has arguably developed from connoisseur to fusspot. The Work, Not the Author, Matters
They snobbishly excluded their less wealthy friends from the party.
This was inverse snobbery, it has been claimed. Times, Sunday Times
Meanwhile, over half of northerners claim that southerners are snobbish and arrogant and wear pinstripe suits. Times, Sunday Times
The Cheshire cat's wide, puckish smile descending from the heavens as a crescent moon; the caterpillar puffing opiate smoke into the face of Alice and snobbishly asking, Who ... Archive 2009-10-01
The rhetoric of prejudicial disdain is meted out, on the one hand against the “hoity-toity”, and on the other against the “hoi poloi” -- against the “snob” with complex tastes and the “pleb” with simple tastes. Archive 2009-06-01
Dan Donohue, who plays the title role in the OSF production of "Hamlet" that I praised in this space last week, doubles as the snobbish headwaiter of "She Loves Me," and he turns out to be as good a comedian as he is a tragedian. In Love With 'She Loves Me'
It is they who are the true snobs, they the elitists, they the censorious kakistocracy. Times, Sunday Times
It's not just calling someone "snobbish," as Westmoreland claims. Election Central Morning Roundup
Opera snobs are terribly snooty about Bocelli's particular brand of "popera" - Time To Say Goodbye, which he does with Sarah Brightman, is possibly the cheesiest song ever to have been recorded - but I imagine that as he sang to the crowd in Central Park, he couldn't have given two hoots. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
How can we take without either a shudder or a laugh the abject refusal of Emmathat "imaginist," self-indulgent, independent, charmingly creative and snobbish heroineto call Knightley "George" after they are betrothed: "I never can call you any thing but Mr. Knightley" (III. xvii, 420). Box Hill and the Limits of Realism
But this didn't stop her from being snobbish to me, and continuing to use the word "goy" - a pejorative term meaning "gentiles" - around me, which she knew offended me, since it disrespected a lot of people I loved. Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
He's a little bit snobby, socially. Times, Sunday Times
He's a frightful snob - if you haven't been to the right school he probably won't even speak to you.
At 20, Gertrude was ‘a snob, a bluestocking, a woman with attitude’, according to her biographer.
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). Archive 2009-12-01
The old snobberies of rock purists and classical elitists make less and less sense now.
It is an outrageous comment, which could only have come from someone who is more arrogant, snobbish and out of touch than the prince he is condemning.
That drearily prevalent, invertedly snobbish contempt for articulacy? To speak another language isn't just cultured, it's a blow against stupidity
If our dress and bearing sheltered us generally from the suspicion of being "raff" (the name at that period for "snobs" [Footnote: "_Snobs_," and its antithesis, "_nobs_," arose among the internal factions of shoemakers perhaps ten years later. The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc
This is Jacobean comedy at its documentary best: a salty, vivid report on the eternal clash between the puritan ethic and spendthrift snobbery.
The snob uses language to look down on the rest of the world. Times, Sunday Times
I wouldn't say that Cher, Dionne, and the snobby Amber top the list of teen movie bitches, but they're definitely aware of their social status.
Bertram is a snob and a liar, and often behaves caddishly. Boston.com Top Stories
That's just snobbery: faze is a useful verb implying a minor disturbance. Times, Sunday Times
We're not stand-offish or snobbish with them. The Sun
The emotional drive behind the anti-chain crusade is an understandable mistrust of big corporations allied with the knee-jerk snobbery that is never far from the surface in American cultural life. Two—Make That Three—Cheers for the Chain Bookstores
The nice thing about your mother is that she doesn't really care what you do, ideally, because some mothers are snobs, and that causes great problems.
You keep saying that, unless I think the BSO is overpaid, I'm some kind of snob, but you yourself are a snob from the other end, and I don't put any more moral stock in populist snobbery than elitist snobbery. In the ballpark
There is plenty of unfounded snobbery as well (Where the dead sergeant's wife becomes the general's widow) and wannabee poets, artists and the suchlike finding happiness in their reinventions. Page 2
How can you dislike a town where everybody jaywalks and the libramientos are known locally as the "other cemetary" and people drive in chaotic but workable distraction and many folks are short and fat and ridiculed by the overcompensating snobbish Highlanders as redneck morons and eating and drinking and dancing are local sports. Driving From San Crist�bal de Las Casas to Lake Chapala
She wasn't a snob about cooking everything from scratch though, she also had her store-bought delicacies.
There is a slight intellectual snobbery about it. Times, Sunday Times
I'm homophobic, I actually don't read well enough to get this book, I hate (insert virtually anything here), I am a hopeless snob who gratifies my ego by posting bad reviews. "Chain, chain...every shadow, every face."
The Irish were no better able than others to comprehend Ulysses, and only those gullible enough to answer the author's snobbish call for a lifetime's dedication to scholia could begin to penetrate the double darknesses of Finnegans Wake.
He's a frightful snob - if you haven't been to the right school he probably won't even speak to you.
But some of the writers the regime is now grooming to take power look a lot like insurgents themselves: indecorous, sometimes indecent, not snobby about pop culture.
I've been waiting for the formula to come to market - i can see the Seal label sneering back at me now ... maybe a Snob/Mastik collabo for non-clinchers? Innovation or Catastrophe? Scratching, Cradling, Sanding, and Beating Your Way to a "Better" Bike
Meanwhile, over half of northerners claim that southerners are snobbish and arrogant and wear pinstripe suits. Times, Sunday Times
Maybe I should be grateful that they are releasing alternative cuts in any format and just ignore the films I'm too snobbish to buy.
May one say that this is so without sounding hopelessly snobbish?
Who is the nobleman holding his boots out of the hotel window -- an act which the Snob very properly declined to classify as snobbish? Lost Leaders
While Anita was sociable and well-liked by her peers, Betty was often overshadowed by her cousin and believed to be snobbish as a result of common misperceptions.
So, Snob, you think bicycle advocacy is moving rearwards! Backward Circles: Fight For No Right to Party
That arrogant, lazy smile swept across his stupid snobbish face as he halted, blocking my path.
Their brief marriage was clearly doomed from the start by her parents' snobbish condescension.
They were all rich snobs that thought people like myself lower than dirt.
To carry the analogy a little further, the Japanese would be the English of Asia - reserved, effete, cultured to the point of snobbery, at least in the face they present to outsiders.
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme satirizes attempts at social climbing, poking fun both at the vulgar, pretentious middle-class and the vain, snobbish aristocracy. Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World
Williams can be as quiet, shy and awkward as any Valley wunderkind, but somehow he's never called snobby or aloof. TechCrunch
I think they are snobs and do not want to be associated with Swindon.
It was an oddly snobbish thing to say about an international tycoon, and Banks spat out the word 'greengrocer' as though selling food were a form of mass murder. Fear and Loathing in Europe
She was an intellectual snob.
What kind of spiteful little snobs have we become that we look down on anyone who works as a cleaner? The Sun
The Captain has a hearty contempt for his father, I can see, and calls him an old put, an old snob, an old chawbacon, and numberless other pretty names. XI. Arcadian Simplicity
The album is very good, and typical Fulks - there are barnburners like this track, a few quiet ballads, and a handful of songs showing off Fulks 'sense of humor (on the track "Countrier Than Thou", Fulks lambasts country fans who snobbily eschew anything modern, refuse to hear the word "Shania" but probably use the word "eschew"). Not a cent to waste, no rock unturned (Music (For Robots))
This reticence, according to another fashion expert, is partly reverse snobbery.
They plug into portable devices and laptops, and will impress even insufferable music snobs.
Noël, an observant neighbour in Jamaica, found her garrulous, snobbish and socially aggressive, while success had embittered him.
At times she's a gangling, anti-social adolescent, and at others a snobbish know-it-all, but she's always riveting.
Alongside its class snobbery and scurrilous hilarity this poem also argues that truth cannot reside in a periodical publication: "Truth," Peter declaims, "Lifts her fair head, and looks with brow sublime/On all the fading pageantries of time" (Works 271) and especially on a magazine full of puffery, interest, and sham learning. 'Manlius to Peter Pindar':Satire, Patriotism, and Masculinity in the 1790s
His way of life may seem a bit ostentatious, but his energy and enthusiasm is infectious, and there is nothing snobbish or affected about him.
Versions of Dante in English offer the reader almost unparalleled opportunity for learned snobbishness.
Hating himself for that snobbery, he drove the boy harder, refusing to admit to himself that he was failing.
In short, I really became quite the superior rock snob.
Nicely done, Snob, medulla oblongata is one of my favorite body parts. Manufacturers to Riders: Go Sponsor Yourself
I've always been a food snob. Times, Sunday Times
The musical difficulty, the nasal quality of the tone and the fact that everyone tunes off the oboe gives double reed players an aura of snobbery; whether it's real or perceived depends on the player.
Who but the dourest of indie-snob purists could fail to succumb to its heady delights?
His suffering at her hands would have been unbearable had he not so richly deserved it for his crass stupidity and snobbishness.
I am fully aware that my reaction is exclusive, snotty and downright snobbish.
The reader will meet a veritable galaxy of rakes, atheistic clergy, philanthropic snobs, scholars, apothecaries and antiquarians in this elegant, witty, informative and, in true Horatian style, entertaining book.
There is a lot of pretentiousness and snobbery associated with literature.
It's hard to imagine that as recently as 30 years ago, most wine snobs dismissed Napa vino as swill, and just a couple of decades ago Australia and Chile barely blipped on the wine connoisseur's radar. 10 Off The Beaten Path Wine Regions (PHOTOS)
No one quite rivalled them when in came to snobbishness.
Sorting out the divide between academic and vocational subjects, and ending the snobbery towards technical training features in all three parties' education manifestos.
When he was a schoolboy at an insufferable snob establishment on the south coast of England, George Orwell developed a strong aversion to all things Scottish.
But the magazine also reflected the snobberies and prejudices of the upper classes.
Along the way, the actress gained a reputation for qualities brash and enviable, as well as easily mocked: She was the sloe-eyed hipster, the vintage-clad vamp, the film snob.
People are so snobby about it. The Sun
Anyone who uses the word "clamber," and correctly no less, in a cycling blog has earned the right to call himself a snob. Prize Fighting: Knuckle Down to Win
Here's all the snobbery and inverted snobbery you can think of. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
Popular culture snobbery Not so long ago cultural snobs held all the cards. Times, Sunday Times
Not out of snobbery, but to protect them from the whiff of a stinking bishop. Times, Sunday Times
Even the most obvious and patently true observation therefore runs the risk of appearing condescending, arrogant or snobbish.
Eat here, unless you're a total food snob. The Sun
But more importantly, the divide between the powerful and non-powerful people in society seems to relate to those who are 'omnivorous', engaging both in old fashioned snob culture classical music, ballet, reading classic books, etc and more popular forms. Hobbies key to class, says study
The snobbery began, I suspect, with sun-dried tomatoes, and has now arrived - via shaved truffles and edamame - at a point where the search for the rare and the downright impossible-to-get has become the foundation of menu-building.
And there is a cabinet minister; well, we know what he is; I have been squibbing him for these two years, and now that I meet him I feel like a snob. Endymion
To some, this indicated a fickleness, a shallowness, an inverted snobbery, an unseemly arrested development.
So you may find yourself glad when a hackneyed sketch about a snobbish country wife turns into tragedy. Times, Sunday Times
I do not know why people think I am hoity-toity or a snob!
They tended to be the snobbiest group, their distinctive attitude focusing on gaining social status and pleasure.
Some parents choose schools for what critics term snobbish motives.
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. Snark: Joe Hagan on ‘haute zoologist’ Heidi Julavits
There are still some cases of snobbery and elitism in Oxbridge admissions, but this situation won't be helped by government quotas.
My bullying started on the very first day at school and I was called a snob and posh because I had a different accent to the rest of my classmates.
Her novel is a satire on social snobbery.
But snobbishness is, in its way, a serious subject, and another, less facetious book could easily be written about it.
Still, the main effect of Richard Eyre's intricate and absorbing production is not to recreate the enamelled snobbery of the Simpson entourage. The Last of the Duchess; 13; The Village Social – review
They often display snobbish, disdainful or patronizing attitudes.
It's with no small amount of self-consciousness that you write or read - or, jeepers, review - a book on snobbery.
He told the conference journalists are often ‘disconnected snobs and pompous know-alls who let the concerns of real people drop off the radar.’
I cannot imagine, for exam 4 ple, that there are any leprosy - snobs.
So get over the badge snobbery. Times, Sunday Times
Compare and contrast with Tom Moody, who also likes lo-fi music and computer graphics, but who is some kind of gentrified punk rock snob lacking any redeeming qualities, including passion. Ethics by Artistotle
They were fetting it up with the rest of their limousine lib snobs in self-congratulation parties where the only rule was that the more offensive and daring you were, the better youwere. The Volokh Conspiracy » More on Liz Cheney
Flash forward to their senior year: Lucy is a brainiac virgin; Kit is an engaged, self centered snob; and Mimi is a trailer trash talking toughie who had the unfortunate luck of getting pregnant.
This is a place with no need for pretension, shameless self-promotion or global snobbery.
And one person described Gaelic as ‘the tinker's language ’, so that there's obviously some sort of snobbery about the language going on there.
I guess this means I don't need to feel I went wrong somewhere raising someone who has become such a cruel and callous snob?
He could spot hypocrisy, pomposity, smugness, snobbery, tomfoolery and turpitude from miles away.
An unbelievable snob is described at the New York Times article at the link. Stop being snobby about reading
stuggy - maybe it's the same concept as snobby's mainstream/underground switch. Anarchy for Sale: No Brakes, No Masters
The bad news is that I'm vain, snobbish, a bit of a gossip and am rather divorced from most of the real world.
November 19th, 2005 at 8: 53 pm sex says: darting! near Imbrium abstruseness miasma snobbish swapping Think Progress » Cheney resignation
What makes this class of people snobbish rather than simply pretentious is their tendency to sneer.
Snobbery be damned, he thought, here was a bunch of actors provoking the kind of wild, untempered enthusiasm he could only dream about.
It represents the welcome victory of artistic enjoyment over intellectual snobbery. Times, Sunday Times
The only thing this bar has established is a snobby, cold & uninviting atmosphere.
Even when he was working on a shoestring, he revealed the kind of amiably creative flair that is often overlooked by film snobs in their unending quest for audience-unfriendly breakthroughs to punish the paying customers for their bourgeois tastes. Burns' Comic Realism Remains, His Brothers Are Gone
More recently the hotel descended into a mockery of its former self, snobbish for snobbery's sake, until rescued in 1995.
My mother had drilled it into me that they were snobs.
Food snobs are awful. Times, Sunday Times
That reckons without British badge snobbery, though. Times, Sunday Times
Poor old opera: battered by charges of elitism, inaccessibility and snobbery, it would be easy to predict its coming death.
Modest, kind or optimistic people often smile more than snobbish, unkind or pessimistic people. Dr T.P.Chia
He is certainly no intellectual snob. Times, Sunday Times
Is it because I've become less snobbish? Times, Sunday Times
Under protest, Ellie visits her mother's alma mater, an East Coast women's college which she expects to be just a bunch of snobs -- and finds herself seduced by the idea of hipness and belonging to someplace cool. Finding Wonderland: The WritingYA Weblog
The word gentleman has tended to be a term of abuse , first cousin to snob.
This attitude makes me worse than a foodie snob - I'm a foodie writing snob.
I was accused of intellectual snobbery for pointing out that more people tend to drop out of the less academic subjects. Times, Sunday Times
My friends and I often complain about how Vancouver is filled with snobby cliques who have no time for strangers, but maybe that's a natural reaction for people sardined into a city with 550,000 others.
Read Tricia Sullivan's fantastic, profane and mind-bending Maul mainly because it's very important to start loving brilliant genre fiction before older readers can tell you to be a snob about it.
Franzen acknowledges the snobbery inherent in his comments, but argues that such elitism is ‘not the reprehensible attitude’ that people commonly believe it to be.
Some accountants have attacked the merchant banks for their inflated self-image and snobbery.
Modest, kind or optimistic people often smile more than snobbish, unkind or pessimistic people. Dr T.P.Chia
They are all such comic caricatures that they are incapable of conveying real human cruelty or vicious snobbery. Times, Sunday Times
Tuscan snobs will enjoy the savory agnolotti dumplings, stuffed with spinach and ground veal, and a steamy bowl of pici spaghetti, drenched in a buttery mushroom sauce and scented with rosemary and bits of black truffles.
When the people who get ‘celebrated’ are chefs, models, celebrity real estate agents and wine snobs, we're in trouble.
Well, this Film Snob says you're not a film buff if you don't watch older movies.
Unfortunately, the loudest grammar snobs are the ones who’ve put the least research into their opinions, and so, for every ten people quietly aware that infinitives can and sometimes should be split, there’s one vocal grammaticaster shouting over them that split infinitives are an abomination in the eyes of Pope. Led astray by the no-split-infinitives fetish « Motivated Grammar
CW has little time for intellectual snobs. Times, Sunday Times
What is it about massed bulbs that brings out such snobbery in gardeners? Times, Sunday Times
Yet this last, the cultivation of sublime indifference, may not be the easiest but the toughest way of all into the snob-free zone.
Unfortunately you've had it: you are in the company of a travel snob.
There were music festival and modern dancing, riding to hounds or other kinds of snobbery.
Loved the poem, Snob, but technically it's not haiku--it's a senryu. Ride to Work, Work to Ride: Living the Dream
How many food snobs would still be raving about white truffles if they were ubiquitous?
Specifics are everything here: meat genealogy, breed pedigree and feed quality, the entire inventory of pointless, snobby particularity.
EU snobbery blamed for curbs on low-alcohol wine Times, Sunday Times
Madeline was a lush and a wine snob, a vegetarian, and a dreadful cook (once she had poached a thick hunk of cod to just that degree of lukewarmness that had reanimated the little white worms inside).
If it is not wide-ranging and erratic, captious and unpredictable, it is not taste but snobbery.
This was inverse snobbery, it has been claimed. Times, Sunday Times
Indie snobs think anything that isn't difficult to like in some way is somehow inferior to pop.
The snobbery and hatred of meritocracy that have been revealed this week are simply inevitable further by-products of monarchy.
I could be labelled a snob or a stuck up, affecting the professional relationship with my team members. To Be Gay In Indian Business
You keep saying that, unless I think the BSO is overpaid, I'm some kind of snob, but you yourself are a snob from the other end, and I don't put any more moral stock in populist snobbery than elitist snobbery. In the ballpark
A snorter is a snob expressing their disapproval, while a sniggerer is insensitive, unsympathetic and immature.
There is something a bit high-hatted about them -- something that suggests intellectual snobbery. Certain Aspects of British Life and Thought
Imagine overeducated music snobs debating the nuances of piano noodlings that he cranked out in one take!
These extreme heels are the last refuge of the fashion snob. Times, Sunday Times
An occasional snobbery still persists - theatre is the high art, film its lesser cousin.
Deeply attached to old values, and seeing the rapidly changing world about him through the distorting lens of a pedantic and snobbish literary tradition, Libanius was vain, petty, and wrapped in finicking antiquarianism.
Effective spring cleaning means parting with your inner packrat Favorite designer labels cater to hot bods and rich snobs Site Feed
Was it just their snobby, overactive imaginations? Times, Sunday Times
On a completely unrelated note, I was watching a little bit of RoboCop on cable TV last night...this is one of those movies that, even though I already own the Criterion edition DVD he said snobbily, I always feel compelled to watch at least a little bit of it whenever I come across it on TV. Archive 2004-07-25
It has all of the requisite sand, surf, sun, snobs and sin to go along with its saucy swimwear.
He said: 'I think now people are less snobby about contestants coming from these shows. The Sun
Snob did not you learn anything, put some butterflies on with a sharpy, pretend you will give it to charity, and you can can charge 500,000.00 Spoils of Victory: Jousting with Legitimacy
All of this has saddled art songs with a reputation for preciosity and snobbishness.
Really? and not one point of view is backed up with any substance; the snobbery about the orbit, for example, which is twice so lazily described as wonky, does not shed any light on mr long's objection to the idea or the execution. in fact re-reading this - out of sheer disbelief - i find no real content whatsoever. a terrible article, a terrible journalist. Evening Standard - Home
Couldn't they see he was a rich, snobby, stuck-up scum?
He started on a downbeat note, reminding us of the Establishment's crawling opening party to launch the channel, which was full of snobbery and intellectual pretension.
They often display snobbish, disdainful or patronizing attitudes.
There is nothing amusing about snobbery, racism, bigotry, misogyny and xenophobia.
She protested strongly at being called a snob.

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