Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, befitting, or resembling a snob; pretentious.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to a snob; resembling a snob.
- Proud, conceited, or insolent over adventitious advantages.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a snob; characteristic of, or befitting, a snob; vulgarly pretentious.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having the property of being a
snob ;arrogant andpretentious ;smugly superior ordismissive of perceived inferiors.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior
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Examples
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There was, they felt, “a certain snobbish and faddish ‘interest’ in Negroes.”
White America Reacts 2009
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There was, they felt, “a certain snobbish and faddish ‘interest’ in Negroes.”
White America Reacts 2009
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We know that she impressed those who knew her as absorbed in snobbish ambitions and petty resentments, and that she had as her chief ingratiating tribute a talent for mimicry, which is often the sport of an unloving and derisive soul.
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We know that she impressed those who knew her as absorbed in snobbish ambitions and petty resentments, and that she had as her chief ingratiating tribute a talent for mimicry, which is often the sport of an unloving and derisive soul.
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Dimly it had dawned upon her more than once that Rags regarded certain speeches and ways of hers as "snobbish" -- speeches and ways which to her had seemed aristocratic.
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Who is the nobleman holding his boots out of the hotel window -- an act which the Snob very properly declined to classify as snobbish?
Lost Leaders Andrew Lang 1878
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It might not be hard to frame this as a kind of snobbish bullying.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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It might not be hard to frame this as a kind of snobbish bullying.
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It might not be hard to frame this as a kind of snobbish bullying.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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It's not just calling someone "snobbish," as Westmoreland claims.
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