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Recent Examples of snobbism
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.
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Nicole Laporte,
Town & Country,
2 Oct. 2022
The pant and skirt suits in particular, along with the nearly all-black palette, reminded me of the snobbism of fashion in the 1990s and early 2000s, especially in New York, when to wear colors and prints was considered gauche.
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Rachel Tashjian,
Harper's BAZAAR,
23 May 2022
There was a kind of a snobbism about it.
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Julian Sancton,
The Hollywood Reporter,
17 May 2022
Is it inverted snobbism of some kind on my part, or some sort of a dishonesty in approach?
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Sarah Cowan,
The New York Review of Books,
10 Oct. 2020
And all such commercial transactions were interlaced with snobbism.
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Willard Spiegelman,
WSJ,
9 Aug. 2018
Nicole Laporte,
Town & Country,
2 Oct. 2022
The pant and skirt suits in particular, along with the nearly all-black palette, reminded me of the snobbism of fashion in the 1990s and early 2000s, especially in New York, when to wear colors and prints was considered gauche.
—
Rachel Tashjian,
Harper's BAZAAR,
23 May 2022
There was a kind of a snobbism about it.
—
Julian Sancton,
The Hollywood Reporter,
17 May 2022
Is it inverted snobbism of some kind on my part, or some sort of a dishonesty in approach?
—
Sarah Cowan,
The New York Review of Books,
10 Oct. 2020
And all such commercial transactions were interlaced with snobbism.
—
Willard Spiegelman,
WSJ,
9 Aug. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for snobbism
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The film is a go-for-broke expression of wild imagination and social consciousness that’s impossible not to admire for its wacky, bold vision, with teleporting, high fashion snobbery and pyramid schemes.
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Fridays bring themed classes, courses high on intel and low on snobbery.
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There’s a snobbishness to that kind of comment, which doesn’t make any sense to me.
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Needless to say there was no second date, and, eventually though painfully, my own arrogance had some of its rough edges worn down.
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In Episode 3, Harris discussed the early arrogance of the founding fathers who made proposals for America's independence and questioned who was entitled to freedom.
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Since the Labour Party took office in 2024, average weekly pay, adjusted for inflation and excluding bonuses, has inched up less than 1% to £494 ($651), according to the UK statistics office — hardly better than the growth since 2019.
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But that was little comfort to tech investors, who are concerned that short-term inflation will increase the debt burden of mega-cap companies that have borrowed large amounts of money to fund their artificial intelligence infrastructure.
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However, in the wrong hands, being silent can signal disdain and superciliousness.
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Love this imperiousness aimed at doctors from a hospital bed.
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Pearl revels in wickedness, presenting a literary world in which a successful writer’s haughtiness is both encouraged and rewarded.
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Anna, her hauteur hardening like a protective shell, is aghast.
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His hauteur could be endearing or off-putting.
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“Snobbism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snobbism. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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