snobbery

Example Sentences

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"In darts, we've defeated the snobbery in sport," promoter Barry Hearn said in a recent interview with British newspaper The Times.

From Barron's • Dec. 30, 2025

Out of context, that quote may lend weight to the strain of snobbery that wrote off “Blood and Sand” before the plot found its footing, which it did after its introductory episodes.

From Salon • Dec. 7, 2025

But it’s not snobbery that has kept me away.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2025

Eliot got it from the start, but in Woolf’s case bafflement joined forces with snobbery.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

Such snobbery was rooted in the fact that by the early 1980s, Everest’s easiest line—via South Col and the Southeast Ridge— had been climbed more than a hundred times.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer