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the snobbery of some wine connoisseurs
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The aspects of his temperament held up for mockery — the hyper-intellectualism, the snobbery, the irreducible Jewishness — doubled as weapons of seduction.
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Allowing her to claim a place in the style ethos goes against the industry's inherent snobbery.
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The answer may come down to a resilient compound, in élite culture, of Platonic idealism and run-of-the-mill snobbery.
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Casey has an affable lack of artistic snobbery about his work.
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The second defense holds that the questioning of Trump’s mental capacity is no more than liberal snobbery.
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With both coffee snobbery and outdoorsiness on the rise, there’s a healthy market for a better cup of joe that can be brewed around campfires, on mountainsides or just in a pinch.
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The refusal to go there reeks of snobbery — the same kind of attitude that irks Boise State when dealing with Pac-12 schools, many of whom have little interest in playing games in Boise.
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Perhaps its spread has been hampered by the ignorant snobbery of the chili purists, who are in their own way as dogmatic and intolerant as martini snobs.
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First Known Use of snobbery
1843
SNOBBERY Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of snobbery for English Language Learners
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: the behavior or attitude of people who think they are better than other people : the behavior or attitude of snobs
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