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The snobbish sommelier is a relic from the past—a figure from a less-enlightened time in wine.

At its worst, Orange County appears to be nouveau-riche snobbish, insecure, artificially flavored and colored, vapid, priggish and drearily sanitized.

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The critique felt not just snobbish, but oddly incurious, a misreading of cakes that are, at heart, celebrations of joy.

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Even still to this day, the word "narcissist" gets misused to describe people who are merely snobbish or egotistical.

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

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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