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Noun
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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
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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
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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
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Still, Patel warns Gen Z that confidence can quickly morph into arrogance.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
11 Oct. 2025
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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
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However, in the wrong hands, being silent can signal disdain and superciliousness.—
Matteo Atti,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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The gold rally reflects unease about the economy and lingering concerns about inflation, which has been stuck above the Federal Reserve’s 2% target for the past four and a half years.—
Matt Egan,
CNN Money,
8 Oct. 2025
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That comes as investors seek a safe haven from a weaker dollar, geopolitical volatility, economic uncertainty and stubborn inflation.—
Lim Hui Jie,
CNBC,
8 Oct. 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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After all, as Everett reminds us with comic pomposity: The journey matters.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
17 July 2025
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Right now, his focus is on doing eight shows a week, while injecting a Big Easy swing to the Major General’s pomposity.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
30 Apr. 2025
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Any claim for Swift’s genius should reckon with her lapses into imprecision and pompousness.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Snootiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snootiness. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.
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