snobby
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But the pricing is anything but snobby, which has helped make its $148 Effortless Pants an office staple and its Super Puff down jacket, starting at around $250, go viral.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Mello appeared as the snobby high school student Chandler in the 1999 romantic hit, which also featured Freddie Prinze Jr. and Rachael Leigh Cook.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
"We have been ridiculously snobby about trades and the idea that half of young people should go to university feels very outdated," he says.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
“That just makes it more threatening in my mind. And I like to think of her as more vulnerable than just snobby or superior. I think it’s way more insecure.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026
I even screwed up my face and flounced my hands about, as if imitating her snobby behavior.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
The details were precise because St. Aubyn actually had the British upper-class background that, as Clive James noted, the snobbier Evelyn Waugh longed for.
From New York Times ● May 31, 2021
Isn’t it snobbier, really, to expect us to stick to a pre-approved checklist of Oscar hopefuls?
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2019
If he were plain Mr Philip Windsor, he would be seen as a tiresome old toff, with some drearily old-fashioned prejudices: an older, snobbier version of Nigel Farage but without the roguish charm.
From The Guardian ● May 4, 2017
Lanyard Envy has been surpassed by Clearance Envy, a far snobbier Freudian affliction.
From Washington Post
Winchester Model 12 It is well known among the snobbier of shotgun enthusiasts that no repeating shotgun can handle as well as an over/under or a side-by-side.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even the snobbiest TV snoots can’t resist Alan Cumming as the playfully sadistic laird of Ardross Castle, emceeing what is essentially a closed circle murder mystery.
From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2026
Dad hats are a go-to fashion accessory for even the snobbiest among us.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2021
They’re labels that have confused the snobbiest of musos.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 31, 2017
I was disappointed to learn that you have ranked Washington, D.C., as the second snobbiest city in America, behind only San Francisco.
From Washington Post
She might have known that Westover 154 is one of the snobbiest colleges in the world.”
From Dolly's College Experiences by Mabel Cronise Jones
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