snobbishness

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Noun
  • Leave the snobbery at the door: This trend is all about making wine approachable and fun.
    Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 July 2025
  • His commentary is equally free of snobbery and of attempts to dumb anything down.
    David Denby, New Yorker, 20 July 2025
Noun
  • There was a kind of a snobbism about it.
    Julian Sancton, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2022
  • 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
  • And still, most new brands enter with a kind of hopeful arrogance, as if a good idea and some nice branding are enough to push past gravity.
    Joel Goldstein, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • There’s a certain kind of arrogance that doesn’t yell or pound its chest.
    Stephanie Dillon, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • More plausibly, a few years of 1970s-style inflation—in 1979 inflation reached more than 14 percent per year in the United States—would crater the value of long-term bonds but have less effect on short-term debt, which would have to be refinanced at higher interest rates.
    Kenneth S. Rogoff, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2025
  • After surviving the challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic and climbing inflation during the administration of President Joe Biden, Kallianis now cites tariffs slapped on products many restaurateurs depend on coming from our North American trading partners as another obstacle for the industry.
    Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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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