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  • noun Plural form of snobbery.

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Examples

  • Treading Dangerously One of the prevailing snobberies among Parisians is that the provinces are teeming with unenterprising folk shuffling about in slippers.

    All Aboard for le Cinéma Français Lennox Morrison 2011

  • As another "fat fantasy" writer who unashamedly wants to use those epic tropes - which in my case are absolutely laced with Romanticism - and then has come up bang against some of the snobberies/problems of categorisation you elucidate here, it's been a refreshing read.

    More Aesthetics Hal Duncan 2007

  • She is also a Bunting Fellow at Radcliffe starting a few months after the surgery, and her descriptions of life there (and the snobberies and interactions of the other fellows) are often amusing.

    Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2005

  • The only thing that breaks through these canine snobberies are puppies, which, being so darned cute, are a concept unto themselves irregardless of their breeding.

    Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2005

  • But even cold white asses (to paraphrase Cleaver) are subject to class snobberies and stratifications.

    A Twist in Time Wolcott, James 2007

  • Political snobberies, which divide people into in-groups and out-groups, are the problem.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Dating Across Ideological Lines: 2007

  • The things they mention usually sound to my ear like harmless snobberies, but I wonder how the city would feel if battle lines were drawn as they once were, during the long civil war, when individual neighborhoods became strongholds.

    Gemayel���s Death May Mean Civil War���What Else for Mideast? 2006

  • The things they mention usually sound to my ear like harmless snobberies, but I wonder how the city would feel if battle lines were drawn as they once were, during the long civil war, when individual neighborhoods became strongholds.

    Gemayel's Death May Mean Civil War-What Else for Mideast? 2006

  • Why does music inspire the worst of snobberies in people?

    When You Ask For A Story... zoethe 2004

  • The things they mention usually sound to my ear like harmless snobberies, but I wonder how the city would feel if battle lines were drawn as they once were, during the long civil war, when individual neighborhoods became strongholds.

    Gemayel's Death May Mean Civil War-What Else for Mideast? 2006

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