snobbishly
Example Sentences
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I've gone to plenty of small-batch chocolate factories, tasted many carefully curated single-origin chocolate bars, and, for a time, snobbishly refused to eat any confection under 70 percent cocoa.
From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2023
“At seventeen I met a thin, heavy-thighed, balding man who talked and talked, snobbishly, bookishly, and called me ‘Sweet.’
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 16, 2019
Others were jerks — of either the snobbishly aloof or browbeating variety.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 6, 2018
People still sometimes snobbishly declaim to me that they don’t have a television, but it happens a lot less than people apologizing in hushed tones for not having watched Mad Men yet.
From Slate ● Dec. 26, 2013
Olive, who truly believed that her family was the best in the world, quite snobbishly would not permit it to be touched by debt.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
