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

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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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
No one quite rivalled them when in came to snobbishness.
Even the most obvious and patently true observation therefore runs the risk of appearing condescending, arrogant or snobbish.
So you may find yourself glad when a hackneyed sketch about a snobbish country wife turns into tragedy. Times, Sunday Times
Some parents choose schools for what critics term snobbish motives.
But snobbishness is, in its way, a serious subject, and another, less facetious book could easily be written about it.
They often display snobbish, disdainful or patronizing attitudes.
The bad news is that I'm vain, snobbish, a bit of a gossip and am rather divorced from most of the real world.
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What makes this class of people snobbish rather than simply pretentious is their tendency to sneer.
More recently the hotel descended into a mockery of its former self, snobbish for snobbery's sake, until rescued in 1995.
Modest, kind or optimistic people often smile more than snobbish, unkind or pessimistic people. Dr T.P.Chia
Is it because I've become less snobbish? Times, Sunday Times
Modest, kind or optimistic people often smile more than snobbish, unkind or pessimistic people. Dr T.P.Chia
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.
All of this has saddled art songs with a reputation for preciosity and snobbishness.
They often display snobbish, disdainful or patronizing attitudes.
Some people say that using the clear plastic overlay is "tacky" but I think that is rather snobbish, and not economical. The Linen Closet
If this profession of my love for my own name makes me an arrogant and snobbish character, so be it.
They look like members of a snobbish elite who relish their wealth and their sense of superiority.
I was very resistant to the place and rather snobbish about it. 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
Snobbish home-owners are protesting about a refugee family moving into their street.
they snobbishly excluded their less wealthy friends from the party
He is equal parts superior, insecure, vain, snobbish, and fearful.
This tone of slight snobbishness, a patrician aversion to vulgar middle-class prejudice, is typical of the book.
Photography shouldn't be snobbish, and smiley pictures can be a great record of a happy holiday.
And, if you imagined Hollywood stars to be haughty, snobbish creatures, you are way off the mark.
I found that I could be just as snobbish about cultural informality as formality. Christianity Today
The literary establishment's incoherent critique combines snobbish disdain for popular culture with an ahistorical philistinism.
It turns out that nearly everyone, Japanese or otherwise, is a philistine in the condescending and rather snobbish world view of the film.
I had been arrogant, snobbish, and unkind. Positive Parent Power
Truly there is nothing more snobbish than the tabloids when it comes to passing judgment on the way the other half lives.
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. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part IV
That drearily prevalent, invertedly snobbish contempt for articulacy? To speak another language isn't just cultured, it's a blow against stupidity
It might not be hard to frame this as a kind of snobbish bullying. John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
‘For your information this little rat insulted me’ Debbie huffed sticking her chin up snobbishly.
A: “Who all,” like “you all,” is a common redundant suffixal colloquialism and may be used without disadvantage in all but the most snobbish circles, even though it is not standard English. The Language Monitor
He's being sympathetic, rather than snobbish. Times, Sunday Times
There was, they felt, “a certain snobbish and faddish ‘interest’ in Negroes.” White America Reacts
The protest, from my perspective, was in large part a snobbish dismissal of Johnson by the Eastern establishment; Cambridge professors and Manhattan lawyers and their guitar-strumming children thought they could run the country and the world better than this lugubrious bohunk from Texas. On Not Being a Dove
Literary people can sometimes be very snobbish about reading for pure pleasure, for entertainment.
I've never met such a snobbish, selfish, unfriendly, rude lot in all my life.
She is their foil, the object of their farcical delusions and snobbish assumptions.
Her upturned profile, proud but not snobbish, promises to cut through the stormy seas ahead.
Imbalances at this level can result in low self-esteem, inferiority complexes, an inflated sense of self-importance or snobbishness.
The football authorities and club owners were snobbish, patronising know-nothings who treated the players like serfs.
Fighting the most popular storytelling medium is not only a losing battle and horribly snobbish but unsocial too.
She is staunchly working class, curiously snobbish about the oddest things and dramatically self-opinionated.
Colonel Solent was a snobbish, proud man, dressed similarly to his soldiers, but with a blue tunic and red belt.
Call us selfish, snobbish even, but there's an undeniable delight in stumbling upon something no one else seems to have heard before.
But when he talks about it, it's more with incomprehension than snobbish disdain.
Clothing design should not be about creating pricey and snobbish brands to be foisted on a gullible public.
Men no longer regard creased trousers, nicely tied cravats, well-chosen collars, and harmonious color combinations as signs of sissiness, snobbishness, or weak-mindedness. The Book of Business Etiquette
For the general publishing and pop-culture industries, this has not seemed so much like a heroic or contrarian stance as a stiff and snobbish one.
He doesn't think he got it from his parents, who as far as he can tell were not snobbish at all.
In the best sense of the word, Dr. Hu is a democrat: he has not a touch of either social or intellectual snobbishness.
The snobbishness of Conversazione Snobs is very soon disposed of: as soon as that cup of washy bohea is handed to you in the tea-room; or the muddy remnant of ice that you grasp in the suffocating scuffle of the assembly upstairs. The Book of Snobs
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. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl
There have been no temper tantrums, no documented instances of peevish bad behaviour or shirtiness, no haughtiness or snobbishness, no unguarded utterances, no drug-taking or public drunkenness, no unsuitable girlfriends: precious little, in fact, for the tabloids to get their teeth into. Prince William: how he has coped with a life in the spotlight
And dinna be thinking I'm sae fashed I didna hear ye fergetting yer proper English, lass, that Duncan brought that fine snobbish tutor tae be teaching ye. Tender Rebel
She's much too snobbish to stay at that plain hotel.
They had a snobbish dislike for their intellectual and social inferiors.
There is nothing snobbish or elitist about the term.
Emma is a comic figure partly because of the preposterous nature of her snobbish pretensions.
Modest, kind or optimistic people often smile more than snobbish, unkind or pessimistic people. Dr T.P.Chia
It is a miracle that her flimsy frame has been able to survive the extremes of weather, utter penury and the cruel sneers of her snobbish compatriots during her hellish ordeal.
Next thing we know, Dewey presents himself in Ned's place at an exclusive and rather snobbish private school before a class of 10-year-olds.
I'm imagining a lot of snobbish backroom complaining: ‘The lowercase x-height is ghastly!’
A middle-class pastor and his snobbish wife come up against their streetwise downtown family. Times, Sunday Times
He accused her of being snobbish and emotionally inhibited.
Giles is a philandering upper-class oik, relentlessly snotty and stultifyingly snobbish.
Far from showing courage as a satirist, Pierre is a conformist who avoids challenging the sensibilities of the snobbish, transatlantic liberal left.
As to having our delicate beer-sodden feelings protected from the term redneck; well, I appreciate the effort, though I highly suspect that the best way to hide snobbishness is to pose as protector of any class of folks you cannot bear. Monkeyfister
Interest in pedigree used to be dismissed as snobbish.
Her duel with the snobbish uncle is unmissable: mutual inter-class scorn at its saltiest. Times, Sunday Times
However, let it be known that I'm not merely trying to snobbishly intellectualise things.
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.
It is hard to imagine two snobbish East Coast intellectuals with lockjaw patrician accents being invited onto prime-time television now to opine on the hot-button issues of the day.
Who likes to hear a snobbish intellectual gasbag show off at a cocktail party?
This omission is a pity for two reasons: Anderson has for years lived and taught in the United States, and does not exhibit the snobbish yet lumpen contempt for American society that is so often found on the European Left; and it would certainly be fascinating to see his full attention engaged on the irony that the United States is simultaneously the most conservative and the most radicalizing force on the planet. What’s Left?
He was another of the horrible rich types that are so stuck-up and snobbish that they only care about themselves.
Ives totally mistrusted the cosmopolitan musical circles with their classic-worshipping conductors, snobbish patrons, and pontifical music critics.
I have met snuffy, stupid, undutiful, conceited, and snobbish priests, but for me one Fr. Francis outweighs them all.

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