Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Snobbish behavior or an instance of it.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being snobbish; the conduct of snobs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being snobbish; snobbishness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The property or trait of being a
snob .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the trait of condescending to those of lower social status
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word snobbery.
Examples
-
Jeremiah Wright apparently had some good things to say during Obama's early years at his church, which included both inner-city people and those who had made it from the ghetto to middle-class life: He encouraged his congregation to better themselves so they could rise out of poverty, but he also condemned "middleclassness", which he defined as snobbery and a superior attitude on the part of some middle-class people.
-
Jeremiah Wright apparently had some good things to say during Obama's early years at his church, which included both inner-city people and those who had made it from the ghetto to middle-class life: He encouraged his congregation to better themselves so they could rise out of poverty, but he also condemned "middleclassness", which he defined as snobbery and a superior attitude on the part of some middle-class people.
-
Jeremiah Wright apparently had some good things to say during Obama's early years at his church, which included both inner-city people and those who had made it from the ghetto to middle-class life: He encouraged his congregation to better themselves so they could rise out of poverty, but he also condemned "middleclassness", which he defined as snobbery and a superior attitude on the part of some middle-class people.
AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Matt Corley, Think Progress 2009
-
I do think there is a certain snobbery, especially in American literary criticism, that leads to the promotion of bloated, weak fiction, and that should be rightly condemned.
-
All our intellectual snobbery is reserved for books; when it comes to the cinematic experience, we demand constant explosions, post-apocalyptic scenarios, lots of aliens/robots/asteroids, and/or large-scale natural disasters (with occasional exceptions made for arty French films, obvs).
Archive 2009-12-01 2009
-
All our intellectual snobbery is reserved for books; when it comes to the cinematic experience, we demand constant explosions, post-apocalyptic scenarios, lots of aliens/robots/asteroids, and/or large-scale natural disasters (with occasional exceptions made for arty French films, obvs).
Terminator Offers Some Lessons for the Salvation of Your Novel 2009
-
Your East Coast intellectual and social snobbery is leaking out around the mask, old buddy.
-
The snobbery is kept in place by those who work in the industry, and genre is exploited, as if for minerals, in order to fuel sales of, say, "post-modern" fiction.
-
This snobbery is perhaps the last remaining vestige or outcrop of the once formidable massif of Victorian optimism.
Hubris, thy name is Gonzo! superversive 2006
-
The snobbery is hateful, but you can see that Kipling - the poet of Empire would have no sympathy for Gordon Brown's idea.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.