snob

Example Sentences

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It has little cachet; it won’t make you rich the way some sports will, and lacks snob appeal, like, say, golf.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026

He was derided as a snob when he suggested, in a few statements over the years, that he had to dumb down his work for uncultured audiences.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 29, 2025

"Amanda's an awful woman, of course," he said, "a backstabbing snob who treats her children as accessories and turns every encounter with her 'mum chums' at the school gates into a blood sport."

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2025

So I've always been a little literary snob.

From Salon • Jul. 13, 2024

He's a terrific snob and he won't hardly even talk to you unless you're a big shot or a celebrity or something, but he can really play the piano.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger