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snobbery

[snob-uh-ree] / ˈsnɒb ə ri /


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Whatever it was, Stewart’s charm was in his refusal to let snobbery dictate his life or career path.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

Instead, it is a quiet study in snobbery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

McNish has also faced snobbery in the poetry world.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026

Film snobbery notwithstanding, however, much of that will be accomplished via non-Imax 70mm screenings, which come in a near-Homeric list of types.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

All my life, people have taken my shyness for sullenness, snobbery, bad temper of one sort or another.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

Many previous music-critic snobberies have eroded through the consumerist pluralism of the internet, a broader politics of cultural representation, and a renewed investment in pleasure as the literal least a listener can ask for.

From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2019

Nonetheless, learning about my boyhood idol’s snobberies and insecurities has left me slightly downcast.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 1, 2017

A number of the classic romantic comedies of the Great Depression unabashedly upheld the snobberies of the upper classes.

From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2011

This whisks you along, driven by some extraordinary personalities, and an eye for the ironies, snobberies and enmities Mark Zuckerberg's social utopianism opened up.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 15, 2010

How I used to revel in such bitter little snobberies myself; how eay they were, once.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood


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