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

Others were jerks — of either the snobbishly aloof or browbeating variety.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 6, 2018

Critics are desperate to get away from the usual run of dramatic realism and into the realm of imagination, but they’re also snobbishly sick of the people’s fantasies—namely, superhero movies.

From The New Yorker • May 23, 2016

A great action filmmaker like Kathryn Bigelow would have embraced the pulpiness at the heart of this tale rather than snobbishly trying to obscure it.

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2016

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