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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In the manner of a snob.

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  • adverb In a snobbish manner.

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  • adverb in a snobbish manner

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Examples

  • Some, however, seemed ashamed by their weakness for covers: I definitely judge books by the covers, which is probably limiting because I'm sometimes snobbishly resistant to books that look too commercial and overly swayed by compelling cover art.

    Randy Susan Meyers: What Makes You Book a Book? Randy Susan Meyers 2011

  • Some, however, seemed ashamed by their weakness for covers: I definitely judge books by the covers, which is probably limiting because I'm sometimes snobbishly resistant to books that look too commercial and overly swayed by compelling cover art.

    Randy Susan Meyers: What Makes You Book a Book? Randy Susan Meyers 2011

  • The Cheshire cat's wide, puckish smile descending from the heavens as a crescent moon; the caterpillar puffing opiate smoke into the face of Alice and snobbishly asking, Who ...

    Archive 2009-10-01 2009

  • Perhaps I have snobbishly high standards, but when you rev me up for two seasons, you gotta deliver something more than two dudes pulling a Skywalker Noooooooo, leaping down a big-ass vortex — and then showing all other meaningful sacrifices disappearing in a puff of deus ex machina smoke.

    Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Storytellers: You Are Obligated To Deliver The Goods 2010

  • Just because the odds are long and subjective doesn't require you to accuse those mag editors of trying to con you or snobbishly ignoring you.

    GUEST POST: Jennifer Brissett Weighs in on the Writer Pay Rate Flap 2009

  • The Cheshire cat's wide, puckish smile descending from the heavens as a crescent moon; the caterpillar puffing opiate smoke into the face of Alice and snobbishly asking, Who ...

    Alice in Wonderland 2009

  • She was once, rather snobbishly, described as "the most upwardly mobile Greek since Icarus".

    Arianna Huffington: The cheque's in the Post 2011

  • There are many who snobbishly insist on the superiority of the Côte de Nuits, the region to the north, but Jacques-Marie Duvault Blochet, who owned the famed Domaine Romanée-Conti in the mid-19th century, was equally proud of his holdings in Volnay.

    The Childhood Chums Keeping Volnay a Delight Jay McInerney 2011

  • We had snobbishly refused to get in line but then thought, Why not?

    Only Connect 2008

  • And civility means, apparently, snobbishly treating the religious Right as if they were the backwoods rednecks from Deliverance.

    LOSING OUR RELIGION S. E. CUPP 2010

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