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Examples of snobbery in a Sentence
the snobbery of some wine connoisseurs
Recent Examples of snobbery from the Web
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With his wide-ranging travels and marked allergy to snobbery, Bourdain motivated others—fellow chefs and fans alike—to go further in their understanding of food, culture, and the human condition.
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One of my best friends, who worked in radio, came up with the idea of a funny self-deprecating segment about me and my weird snobbery.
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What faced him on the other side was snobbery and disrespect.
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There’s a certain snobbery that some people have more or better knowledge.
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Yet the distrust between the factions was made toxic by class snobbery and hatred, since the Woodvilles were a mere gentry family.
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This could have been nostalgia, snobbery, or even philosophy.
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Lucky for us, there are so many high-quality oils across the spectrum of snobbery that connoisseurship is purely optional.
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What follows is a series of lengthy arguments pitting Barbara's pious do-gooderism, Adolphus' classicist socialism and Stephen's Tory snobbery against Andrew's worship of money, influence and gunpowder.
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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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