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snobbery Definition

snob·bery (snäbə rē)

noun pl. -·ber·ies

snobbish behavior or character, or an instance of this

snobbery Synonyms

snobbery

n.

presumption, pretension, pomposity, snootiness, hauteur; see also arrogance.

snobbery Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • aristocracy: First performed in 1668, Molière's comedy cunningly ridicules the snobbery of the aristocracy and the foolish aspirations of the nouveau riche.
  • class: Titles and books: The worm headed intellectual snobbery of the middle classes.

Converse of object

  • end: We will end the snobbery that has damaged vocational education.
  • attach: And witness also the particular brand of British snobbery attached to exactly which supermarket you choose.
  • ridicule: First performed in 1668, Molière's comedy cunningly ridicules the snobbery of the aristocracy and the foolish aspirations of the nouveau riche.
  • arouse: He never seems snobbery aroused by but andy reid to upgrade themselves.
  • have: It also seems to have an inverted snobbery against chains and big brands, often recommending smaller more interesting accommodation or tours.
  • hate: Evangelical as they are about new art, they hate snobbery.

Adjective modifier

  • inverted: There's a strange kind of inverted snobbery around the last year or two about indie records.
  • inverse: Kay Bell disliked what she saw as inverse snobbery in the attitudes of the book.
  • intellectual: Bloomsbury has its own special brand, intellectual snobbery.
  • academic: Class prejudice, sexism and academic snobbery is endemic within the legal profession.
  • social: She counters her mother's obvious social snobbery with a pride in learning and in a close relationship with her father.
  • certain: There is still a certain snobbery toward the internet.

Noun used with modifier

  • class: Class snobbery may have been a factor, too.
  • wine: Welcome to the age of French wine quality, without French wine snobbery.
  • badge: I would forego my inherent tendency toward badge snobbery to give the Superb serious consideration for my company car.
  • car: Well, I must be guilty of car snobbery because everyone I showed the car to raved about it.
  • structure: The first and astonishingly frequent example is structure snobbery.
  • language: But I think language snobbery also exists in some Welsh speakers.
snobbery Quotes

Snobbery? But it's onlya form of despair.

—Brodsky, Ioseph

The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.

—Bennett, Alan

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