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  • Although I feel a bit like I know absolutely nothing about music specifically classical music, each sentence brings me closer to music snobdom!

    What Are You Reading? - Reading Local: Portland 2009

  • 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 J. Hartley Manners 1899

  • 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 1899

  • 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 Grant Allen 1873

  • In savage as in civilised life there is a "snobdom."

    The Scalp Hunters Mayne Reid 1850

  • You can admit most of that canned and frozen food isn’t really food and instead try to eat things that were recently alive, not cooked into broken, useless cell-mush; you can admit junk food DOES TASTE GOOD or you can get into the snobdom of ever-changing Health Faddism just because the cool rich people do it, or you can kill me….

    The Book of the SubGenius The SubGenius Foundation 1983

  • You can admit most of that canned and frozen food isn’t really food and instead try to eat things that were recently alive, not cooked into broken, useless cell-mush; you can admit junk food DOES TASTE GOOD or you can get into the snobdom of ever-changing Health Faddism just because the cool rich people do it, or you can kill me….

    The Book of the SubGenius The SubGenius Foundation 1983

  • You can admit most of that canned and frozen food isn’t really food and instead try to eat things that were recently alive, not cooked into broken, useless cell-mush; you can admit junk food DOES TASTE GOOD or you can get into the snobdom of ever-changing Health Faddism just because the cool rich people do it, or you can kill me….

    The Book of the SubGenius The SubGenius Foundation 1983

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