snob

Example Sentences

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Woolf was a snob, but she was hardly unique in her condescension.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

"Amanda's an awful woman, of course," he said, "a backstabbing snob who treats her children as accessories and turns every encounter with her 'mum chums' at the school gates into a blood sport."

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2025

One of Leonard’s sins turns out to be that he’s a snob who mocks Malcolm and Diane as “Mr. and Mrs. Ken Burns of Canada.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2024

So I've always been a little literary snob.

From Salon • Jul. 13, 2024

I remained a backyard snob to most of my class girls until the end of term.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie