snobbish

Example Sentences

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How easily we become snobbish about ingredients that offer smart, flavorful solutions for real bodies and finite energy.

From Salon • Jan. 5, 2026

In the rare event that you do face down a truly snobbish somm, DiGrigoli believes there isn’t much point in engaging.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

They had feared he might be some snobbish yachtie or posing Instagrammer, who would make sure they knew who was boss.

From BBC • Sep. 29, 2024

First, he must convince his snobbish schoolmates that he belongs among the Capitol’s well-fed elites.

From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2023

Consequently we were not royal but snobbish, not aristocratic but class-conscious; we believed authority was cruelty to our inferiors, and education was being at school.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison