snobbishly

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He tries to look at ease, though it is a great deal of trouble; but he imitates him to a hair in some things, for he stares impudent at the galls, has a cigar in his mouth, dresses snobbishly, and talks of making a book at Ascot.

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  • Reilly, rather snobbishly, disputes whether it is a horror film, and some posh child actor is simply pleased to be there. —  DVD Times
  • This was mostly due to my use of HDR, which he snobbishly refuses to do. —  HansMast.com
  • This tends to result in scarily high skill levels and snobbishly low patience levels amongst some of the players making it a less than ideal entry point for gamers experiencing the world of SOCOM for the first time. —  Jolt
  • An uptown girl sits down at a cafe and begins to behave snobbishly. —  Adland
  • There can be extremely strong evidence and logic chains that rely on far more reasonable and realistic assumptions than the evidence from formal fancy regressions and models, but many economists snobbishly ignore this very strong and valuable evidence and logic leading to terrible conclusions and advice. —  Worthwhile Canadian Initiative
 

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