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snob
  1. (informal) A person who wishes to be seen as a member of the upper classes and who looks down on those perceived to have inferior or unrefined tastes. [from 20th c.]
  2. (colloquial) A cobbler or shoemaker. [from 18th c.]
  3. (dated) A member of the lower classes; a commoner. [from 19th c.]
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  5. Examples:
    1. “They met for breakfast on Margate pier, but when Ramsay asked for toast instead of fried bread, his father told him not to be a snob.”
      “Indeed, excluding those people who undertook air travel for its snob or novelty value, flying was only for quick errands or visits.”
      “Likewise Liev Schreiber played a deficiently intellectual snob to perfection.”
snobbishness
  1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being snobbish.
  2. (countable) The result or product of being snobbish.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “His suffering at her hands would have been unbearable had he not so richly deserved it for his crass stupidity and snobbishness.”
      “All of this has saddled art songs with a reputation for preciosity and snobbishness.”
      “Versions of Dante in English offer the reader almost unparalleled opportunity for learned snobbishness.”
snobbism
  1. A snobbish attitude, particularly in relation to art or high culture.
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    1. “This question of the part played by culture in a civilisation prompts the similar question of the role of snobbism.”
      “It is a critical acuteness, not a snobbism, which last is selection on some other principle than that of a personal quality.”
      “Shall I play geographer to those who are learned in the nomenclature of snobbism?”
snobocracy
  1. Snobs, collectively; snobbish behaviour or attitudes.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Two queens of the snobocracy will entertain us at romping in the hay, with Sir Roger de Coverley to follow.”
      “Prate as we may of democracy, we must admit, if we are to be honest with ourselves, that this sad old world is a snobocracy.”
      “And what, after all, is democracy but the highest form of snobocracy?”
snobbiness
  1. The state or condition of being snobby.
snobbery
  1. The property or trait of being a snob.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Any new fan who inquires further into the obstacles he met will I hope be shaken to the core by the venomous snobbery that stood in his way.”
      “Ms Lauren reads my mind and posts questions on a topic I've been thinking about recently, snobbery.”
      “But times are fresh and proof is mostly based on wild innuendo and moral snobbery in these dawn days of post-America.”
snobling
  1. (humorous) A little snob.
snobbishnesses
snobocracies
  1. plural of snobocracy
snobbisms
snoblings
  1. plural of snobling
snobberies
snobs
  1. plural of snob
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He was from Barker, she learnt, forced to go to the private school much like she was, sharing her hatred for the snobs of their area.”
      “A respected international footballer speaking decent Spanish and enjoying life in Madrid should shut up both the snobs and the Europhobes.”
      “Unlike the fivesome's debut, this record speaks not only to the pop-savvy nostalgia snobs, but to oblivious youth culture as well.”
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