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Snobbery   /snˈɑbəri/   Listen
Snobbery

noun
1.
The trait of condescending to those of lower social status.  Synonyms: snobbishness, snobbism.






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"Snobbery" Quotes from Famous Books



... thought of the Shakespears and Ardens as families of consequence, and regarded himself as a gentleman under a cloud through his father's ill luck in business, and never for a moment as a man of the people. This is at once the explanation of and excuse for his snobbery. He was not a parvenu trying to cover his humble origin with a purchased coat of arms: he was a gentleman resuming what he conceived to be his natural position as soon as he gained the ...
— Dark Lady of the Sonnets • George Bernard Shaw

... window-dressers, listened to complaints and excuses, and occasionally had a secret orgy of afternoon tea with one or two of her friends. None but these few girls—mostly younger than herself, and remarkable only in that their dislike of the snobbery of the Five Towns, though less fiercely displayed, agreed with her own—really knew Eva. To them alone did she unveil herself, and by ...
— Tales of the Five Towns • Arnold Bennett

... simple gingham dress," she felt they were asking, "and get off a lot of this college stuff to us?" What right indeed? She was convinced, in short, that she had been embarked upon a hopeless piece of snobbery, and, finding the whole business distasteful, it had not been difficult ...
— Tutors' Lane • Wilmarth Lewis

... object and how silly your grounds are," he said. "It's snobbery in you, you know. Now in me it's good sound sense. Because in the first place, if I were ten years younger, and ten times richer, and rather more of a man, I should like to marry her myself; and in the second place I'm not sure Quisante hasn't forged, ...
— Quisante • Anthony Hope



Words linked to "Snobbery" :   hauteur, haughtiness, snobbishness, cliquishness, arrogance, high-handedness, exclusiveness, clannishness, lordliness



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