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Snobbish   /snˈɑbɪʃ/   Listen
Snobbish

adjective
1.
Befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior.  Synonyms: clannish, cliquish, clubby, snobby.



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"Snobbish" Quotes from Famous Books



... think Beth de Graf was snobbish or aristocratic because of this speech, which her cousin Patsy promptly denounced as "snippy." Beth was really a lovable and sunny-tempered girl, very democratic in her tastes in spite of the fact that she was the possessor of an unusual fortune. She was out of sorts to-day, resentful of the ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces Out West • Edith Van Dyne

... a snobbish expatriate! Marry a decadent count, and then shake the dust of this democratic country from your feet forever! Go to London or Paris or Vienna, and wear tiaras and coronets, and speak of disgraceful, boorish America in hushed whispers! The empty-headed fool! She forgets that the tarnished ...
— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking

... on the excuse that he'd almost certainly lose his job and that new jobs were too hard to get in a depression era. He thought that his surviving parent was, beneath her well-mannered surface, a shallow, domineering, snobbish empress. Granted his new vista of vision, he realized for the first time how she had dominated both his father ...
— A World Apart • Samuel Kimball Merwin

... dosed with doctrine, but then it has a treble amount of snobbish worldliness and absurd incident to tickle the palate of pious frivolity. Linda, the heroine, is still more speculative and spiritual than Laura Gay, but she has been "presented," and has more and far grander lovers; very wicked and ...
— The Essays of "George Eliot" - Complete • George Eliot

... in other houses, there had been eight vacancies and no more. Phyllis Moore had been fortunate enough to secure board there. The seven other freshmen had turned out to be delightful girls with no snobbish notions. Seven democrats in a class of one hundred ten, with the politics of the other hundred and two doubtful, did not point to a speedy election of ...
— Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore • Pauline Lester


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