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snobbishness

[ UK /snˈɒbɪʃnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. the trait of condescending to those of lower social status

How To Use snobbishness In A Sentence

  • 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.
  • No one quite rivalled them when in came to snobbishness.
  • But snobbishness is, in its way, a serious subject, and another, less facetious book could easily be written about it.
  • All of this has saddled art songs with a reputation for preciosity and snobbishness.
  • This tone of slight snobbishness, a patrician aversion to vulgar middle-class prejudice, is typical of the book.
  • Imbalances at this level can result in low self-esteem, inferiority complexes, an inflated sense of self-importance or snobbishness.
  • 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
  • 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
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