as in aristocratic
being or characteristic of a person who has an offensive air of superiority and tends to ignore or disdain anyone regarded as inferior
the snobby waiter gave me a withering look when I ordered the cheapest wine on the list
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Recent Examples of snobby
Kiss weathered cynicism and disinterest from the snobby New York music scene in their early months — Frehley worked as a taxi driver to pay the bills — but, crucially, united with manager Bill Aucoin in September 1973, who began plotting the band’s path to stardom with the bandmembers.
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Jem Aswad, Variety, 16 Oct. 2025
The actress was best known for her role as snobby social climber Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances, the BBC comedy that ran for five seasons between 1990 and 1995.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2025
With the camel’s back broken, Dorothy Scott, summoning all her righteous indignation (and channeled with maybe one-third of Audra McDonald’s extraordinary talent, which is still enough to power the city of Manhattan), lets the snobby scold have it.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 11 Aug. 2025
The story of a randomly snobby kid who calls himself an anti-fan, goes to one game and then calls himself a fan is unremarkable.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025
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Jem Aswad, Variety, 16 Oct. 2025
The actress was best known for her role as snobby social climber Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances, the BBC comedy that ran for five seasons between 1990 and 1995.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2025
With the camel’s back broken, Dorothy Scott, summoning all her righteous indignation (and channeled with maybe one-third of Audra McDonald’s extraordinary talent, which is still enough to power the city of Manhattan), lets the snobby scold have it.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 11 Aug. 2025
The story of a randomly snobby kid who calls himself an anti-fan, goes to one game and then calls himself a fan is unremarkable.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for snobby
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While retaining an old-school, aristocratic vibe, Adare's fanciful gargoyles, genuinely warm staff, grand and intimate spaces, and super-comfortable rooms make it somewhere uniquely and unabashedly the Ireland of now.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Jan. 2026
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His aristocratic taste inherited ideas of beauty and old European style, rather than innovating with new trends.—
Jye Marshall,
Fortune,
22 Jan. 2026
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In the early years of his fame as a writer, Rushdie had something of a reputation for being prickly and arrogant, but Gibney’s portrait reveals a man mellowed by time and experience.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
25 Jan. 2026
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Spock is this brilliant, arrogant, aloof-to-the-point-of-obnoxiousness genius.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
18 Jan. 2026
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These page-turning stories will put characters like Pride and Prejudice’s snobbish Caroline Bingley to the modern descendant of Sense and Sensibility’s Eliza Williams at center stage in elevated fan fiction for Janeites.—
Lizz Schumer,
PEOPLE,
16 Dec. 2025
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In fact, Claire’s neighbor Jeanne Wang-Wasserman, played with subtle snobbish disdain by veteran actress Joan Chen, fuels her ire almost as much as her family’s benign neglect.—
Rodney Ho,
Boston Herald,
14 Dec. 2025
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Trading Places When snooty executive Louis Winthorpe III (Dan Aykroyd) and savvy street con man Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy) find their lives reversed as part of an expensive bet, hijinks arise — though not without dashes of controversial humor.—
Lydia Price,
PEOPLE,
23 Dec. 2025
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She's got the element of wild transformation on her side, but the performance lacks the kind of prestige appeal necessary to win over the snootier, international voting body of the acting branch.—
Joey Nolfi,
Entertainment Weekly,
4 Nov. 2025
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“Snobby.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snobby. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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