Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or relating to a snob; partaking of the character of a snob; snobbish.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Snobbish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Characteristic of a snob.
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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Its a French word snobby people use that means fake or knockoff.
Dork Diaries Rachel Renée Russell 2009
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Its a French word snobby people use that means fake or knockoff.
Dork Diaries Rachel Renée Russell 2009
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Williams can be as quiet, shy and awkward as any Valley wunderkind, but somehow he's never called snobby or aloof.
TechCrunch Sarah Lacy 2010
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Other leading names in the star-studded cast include Celia Imrie who plays Doris Speed - better known as snobby Rover's Return landlady Annie Walker.
WalesOnline - Home 2010
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I've been told that people at the UPenn can be classified as snobby ...?
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This is going to sound really judgmental and snobby, which is probably because I'm a total asshole, but the clientele at this Walmart is particularly depressing.
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This is going to sound really judgmental and snobby, which is probably because I'm a total asshole, but the clientele at this Walmart is particularly depressing.
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It is not because we are being "snobby", it is because in practice we find students who have these subjects perform less well than students who have the more traditional subjects.
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It's not this kind of snobby cultural elite that's deciding what's relevant and not relevant because the generation of young people doesn't even care about that.
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It's not this kind of snobby cultural elite that's deciding what's relevant and not relevant because the generation of young people doesn't even care about that.
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