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

It’s thought to be snobbishly pedantic for one to think critically about these wines, as if preferring a good bottle robs everyone else of the lighthearted diversion that is rosé.

From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2018

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