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Snobbish   /snˈɑbɪʃ/   Listen
Snobbish

adjective
1.
Befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior.  Synonyms: clannish, cliquish, clubby, snobby.



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"Snobbish" Quotes from Famous Books



... So it is, if one is sent to Coventry by gentlemen. So it is, if one is neglected by those who, in point of education, thrift, and morality are our equals or superiors. So it is not, if done by the low-minded, the ignorant, and the snobbish. If it be possible, among the four hundred young charity students of the Government, that Cadet Smith, for instance, finds no warm friends, and has won no respect after the gallant fight he has made for four years—a harder contest ...
— Henry Ossian Flipper, The Colored Cadet at West Point • Henry Ossian Flipper

... I should say," said Rutherford, coloring. "Mort has always ridiculed me for that sort of thing, and told me I'd make a precious fool of myself some day; I don't intend to be snobbish, though he says I am, but that's just my way somehow, unless I happen to like a person. Mort is different from me; he will get along with all sorts of people, you know, but ...
— The Award of Justice - Told in the Rockies • A. Maynard Barbour

... determining factor in her life. It had been a new phase of Lorimer's character which Thayer had presented. It had revealed him in a new light and one infinitely more likable than any she had yet known. The Lorimer she had met, had been fascinating and a bit snobbish. The friend of the Arlts was altogether lovable. It takes greater tact and staying power to make friends outside one's social grade than in it. People suspect the motives of those who are crossing the ...
— The Dominant Strain • Anna Chapin Ray

... of closing, if he thinks he could make more by keeping open a little longer." (Considering that I am in Government employ, with a decided leaning to literary pursuits, which has not, as yet, met with much support—this is rather too much, but it would be snobbish, perhaps, to say anything.) "I may add," concludes the Professor, with the air of a man who is conceding somewhat, "that this gentleman would be qualified to succeed, would do very well, as an artistic decorator. Are there any questions ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, September 24, 1887 • Various

... side of it until I travelled. You have no idea of the complacency of such a place, the beautiful self-sufficiency of the people; you should hear what a patronizing tone they take toward the outside world! But they have their good points; they're kind and friendly with each other; and not nearly so snobbish as the people of little places are generally pictured. Everybody that is anybody knows all the other somebodies so well, it's like one great family. My people have lived there for ages; and so everybody knows me; and half ...
— Two on the Trail - A Story of the Far Northwest • Hulbert Footner



Words linked to "Snobbish" :   snobbishness, snobby, private, clannish, clubby



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