She placed Ethel in the category of selfish English-snobdom that she had heard and read about and now, apparently, met face to face.— Peg O' My Heart
In savage as in civilised life there is a "snobdom."— The Scalp Hunters
In fact, in this modern England of ours, this fatherland of snobdom, one passes one's life in a see-saw of doubt, between the Scylla and Charybdis of those two antithetical social dangers.— The British Barbarians
She also had chances to wear very wonderful model gowns for next season at the Countess of Severn's new dressmaking, drawing-rooms whither all snobdom crowded and shoved to get near the trade-marked coronet, and where bewildering young ladies strolled haughtily about all day long, displaying to agitated Gotham the most startling gowns in the extravagant metropolis.— The Common Law
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