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Noun
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His commentary is equally free of snobbery and of attempts to dumb anything down.—
David Denby,
New Yorker,
20 July 2025 -
Whatever the reason, the Oscars can no longer afford the luxury of snobbery.—
Benjamin Svetkey,
HollywoodReporter,
18 June 2025
Noun
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There was a kind of a snobbism about it.—
Julian Sancton,
The Hollywood Reporter,
17 May 2022
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Of course, culture shock works the other way around, too, and the image of Southerners who venture to the cold, bitter North for college only to be met by cultural snobbism and insulting assumptions about their identities is itself a stereotype.—
Nicole LaPorte,
Town & Country,
2 Oct. 2022
Noun
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The sweeping track was inspired in part by Rebecca Solnit’s 2014 collection Men Explain Things to Me, with the titular essay providing a scathing look at male arrogance and how conversations between men and women go awry.—
Daniel Kreps,
Rolling Stone,
16 July 2025
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But nothing in his tenure captures all at once the sense of arrogance, tone-deafness to the concerns of Floridians and obsession with keeping secrets.—
Orlando Sentinel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
20 June 2025
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Although Trump remains a polarizing figure, the data suggests that voters are increasingly viewing the party as ineffective on core issues like inflation, border security, and crime.—
Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 July 2025
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Rising inflation and tariff concerns also may have a hand in Gen Z’s new attraction to estate sales.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
26 July 2025
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The kitchen borrowed the ingredient worship of Chez Panisse, but not its reverence for simplicity; the fancy culture-mash pizza of Spago, but not its Eurocentric hauteur; the cheffy precision of the French Laundry, but not its fussy formality.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2025
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There was some explanation for his elusiveness, quite apart from the everyday hauteur of the fashion industry.—
Rebecca Mead,
The New Yorker,
17 Mar. 2025
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“Snobbishness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snobbishness. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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