as in snobs
a person who has an offensive air of superiority and tends to ignore or disdain anyone regarded as inferior
that patronizing little snot at the vintage record store openly smirks when someone asks for something from the Top 40
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snobs
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Terroir doesn’t just belong to wine snobs, because apparently Ethiopia owns it.—
John Noakes,
Hartford Courant,
31 Jan. 2026 -
O’Hara relished playing deluded snobs like this wealthy Manhattanite with artistic ambitions from director Tim Burton’s horror comedy about two dead owners of a country house who want to drive out its new buyers.—
Julie Hinds,
Freep.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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“Snots.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snots. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.
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