Snobbishness

Jones says he needed to let go of what he calls the snobbishness of the dance world and learn that it isn't as easy as it seems to tell a story in musical theater. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Almost to a man the editors denounced what they termed the snobbishness of the army, and denounced West Point for producing snobs, claiming that the ladies of the post, had they been real ladies, would have called on a respectable laundress even if she had been the sergeant's wife. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

We used to be irritated at what we called the snobbishness of English critics of a certain school; we are so no longer, for we see that its criticism is only the result of ignorance -- simply of inability to understand. ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)

(But make it a Hudson Baby Bourbon … because apparently, this snobbishness is deeply engrained …) ❋ Unknown (2009)

I can only call it snobbishness, because there are plenty of delicious wines made on Long Island (but I'm preaching to the choir here, right?) ❋ Unknown (2007)

On the contrary, a harmless old-fashioned snobbishness is perceptible all through his work. ❋ Unknown (1945)

He sees field-sports as primarily an exercise in snobbishness, which they already were in the England of that date. ❋ Unknown (1944)

The snobbishness is somewhat less open than in the Gem and Magnetthat is the most one can possibly say. ❋ Unknown (1940)

You get no further if you do not realize that snobbishness is bound up with a species of idealism. ❋ Unknown (1937)

She was astonished, too, at the furious invective which he was always launching at the aristocracy, at fashionable life, and 'snobbishness' -- "undoubtedly," he would say, ❋ Marcel Proust (1896)

Marianne, with the earliest touch of distinct "snobbishness" -- let it be proudly pointed out that the example is not English, [332] -- declines to go into service, but does not so much mind being a shop-girl, and M. de Climal establishes her with his _lingère_, a certain Mme. Dutour. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)

At this time, a touch of what may not uncharitably be termed snobbishness is seen in his letters to his family when he extols the unlimited virtues of his _Predilecta_ and the Countess Anna. ❋ Juanita Helm Floyd (N/A)

The disappointment was not occasioned by the sentiment ordinarily defined as snobbishness, but by old New York’s sense of what was due to it when it risked its dignity in foreign lands. ❋ Unknown (1920)

The disappointment was not occasioned by the sentiment ordinarily defined as snobbishness, but by old New York's sense of what was due to it when it risked its dignity in foreign lands. ❋ Unknown (1920)

The general equality of conditions has produced a freedom from assumption on the one hand, and from servility on the other, and, indeed, a general absence of snobbishness, which is quite refreshing to the European visitor. ❋ James Bryce Bryce (1880)

Dude: That woman with her fancy [jewlery] just took that [parking spot] I was about to park in. Girl: It's okay, she was just being [snobbish]. ❋ Cheesemonsta (2008)

"[Snobbish Hound],now don't swallow those [canned] tumours, if you do they'll become cancerous"-direct quote from Captain [Bigglesworth] ❋ Zac Accept It For Snobbish Hound In Urban Dictionary (2007)