snobbism

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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. 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
Noun
  • The force of law should be reserved for protecting people from real, material harm, not to enforce the snobbery of health officials who dislike other people’s habits.
    Martin Cullip, Boston Herald, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Like its across-the-street sibling, I Cavallini wears its coolness with total disregard, giving off not a whiff of snobbery or pretension: its charisma seems arisen, not cultivated.
    Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Still, Patel warns Gen Z that confidence can quickly morph into arrogance.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Schmitt suffers a nervous breakdown after his arrogance (and Webber’s long leash on the residency program) leads to him killing a podcaster on the operating table and these two break up again.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The result is a familiar one—the outlook for both inflation and employment is relatively unchanged compared with when the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) met last month.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Among rising costs and inflation, that’s a terrific deal.
    Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • However, in the wrong hands, being silent can signal disdain and superciliousness.
    Matteo Atti, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 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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“Snobbism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snobbism. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

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