[ UK /snˈɒbɪʃ/ ]
[ US /ˈsnɑbɪʃ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior
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How To Use snobbish In A Sentence

  • They snobbishly excluded their less wealthy friends from the party.
  • 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
  • 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's not just calling someone "snobbish," as Westmoreland claims. Election Central Morning Roundup
  • 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
  • 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
  • We're not stand-offish or snobbish with them. The Sun
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