Snobbery

Word SNOBBERY
Character 8
Hyphenation snob ber y
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Snobbery"

What do we mean by snobbery?

Snobbish behavior or an instance of it. noun

The character of being snobbish; the conduct of snobs. noun

The quality of being snobbish; snobbishness. noun

The property or trait of being a snob. noun

The trait of condescending to those of lower social status noun

The property or trait of being a snob.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Snobbery

The word "snobbery" in example sentences

Jeremiah Wright apparently had some good things to say during Obama's early years at his church, which included both inner-city people and those who had made it from the ghetto to middle-class life: He encouraged his congregation to better themselves so they could rise out of poverty, but he also condemned "middleclassness", which he defined as snobbery and a superior attitude on the part of some middle-class people. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I do think there is a certain snobbery, especially in American literary criticism, that leads to the promotion of bloated, weak fiction, and that should be rightly condemned. ❋ Unknown (2009)

All our intellectual snobbery is reserved for books; when it comes to the cinematic experience, we demand constant explosions, post-apocalyptic scenarios, lots of aliens/robots/asteroids, and/or large-scale natural disasters (with occasional exceptions made for arty French films, obvs). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Your East Coast intellectual and social snobbery is leaking out around the mask, old buddy. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The snobbery is kept in place by those who work in the industry, and genre is exploited, as if for minerals, in order to fuel sales of, say, "post-modern" fiction. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The snobbery is hateful, but you can see that Kipling - the poet of Empire would have no sympathy for Gordon Brown's idea. ❋ Unknown (2006)

And, Pari - there is a built-in snobbery from some indies regarding mass market authors. ❋ Unknown (2006)

This snobbery is perhaps the last remaining vestige or outcrop of the once formidable massif of Victorian optimism. ❋ Superversive (2006)

Epstein wittily shivers and shimmies along compelling philosophical and psychological branches, finally wondering whether snobbery is simply part of human nature. ❋ M-mv (2004)

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