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snob

[snob] / snɒb /
NOUN
person who looks down on others
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A development for wealthy out-of-towners with second homes is known as Snob Hollow.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

When I interviewed her in 2020 for my new book, Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don’t See, Cornelius was working as a claims analyst for United Healthcare.

From Slate • Jul. 28, 2023

Peters’s chapters about “The Snob Factor” and “The Price of Glamour” are devastating, and no less powerful for his own mild status obsession and name-dropping.

From Washington Post • May 4, 2017

“The regime wants to remove Pavlensky,” read the headline of an opinion piece on the website of Snob magazine.

From The Guardian • Jan. 20, 2017

But if you are a Snob and afraid, you take his neglect quietly enough, and will boast, when you go home, of his polite attentions to yourself and family, when on the Island of Cuba.

From A Trip to Cuba by Howe, Julia Ward




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