snobbery
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Instead, it is a quiet study in snobbery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Film snobbery notwithstanding, however, much of that will be accomplished via non-Imax 70mm screenings, which come in a near-Homeric list of types.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
This I-95 rivalry is intense, full of civic snobbery and loutish fandom; in other words, perfect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
Robinson believes "football snobbery" is behind some of the reluctance to embrace set-pieces as a potential game-changer.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026
My feeling remains, no less than before, that this represents a piece of unthinking snobbery on the part of the Society.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Many previous music-critic snobberies have eroded through the consumerist pluralism of the internet, a broader politics of cultural representation, and a renewed investment in pleasure as the literal least a listener can ask for.
From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2019
Nonetheless, learning about my boyhood idol’s snobberies and insecurities has left me slightly downcast.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 1, 2017
Age-appropriate dressing is blown out of the water, ancient snobberies of chic or trashy do not apply.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2017
Like Philip Roth and, more recently, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Ma is unafraid to generalize about her culture and explore its snobberies and social codes.
From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2014
How I used to revel in such bitter little snobberies myself; how eay they were, once.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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