as in arrogance
disapproving
the behavior or attitude of people who think they are better than other people; the behavior or attitude of snobs
the snobbery of some wine connoisseurs
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Recent Examples of snobbery
Put aside any football snobbery and there was actually something rather glorious in seeing the Big Man show how this Dutch team have evolved.
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Daniel Taylor, The Athletic, 6 July 2024
Shaw seems to study less than any pre-med in recorded history, rebeling against a Mommy Dearest played as an archaic caricature of rich snobbery by Nancy De Mayo.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 22 Jan. 2025
The thought leaders in the Democratic party are doubling down on their snobbery and condescension while refusing to acknowledge the voters’ repudiation of their entire agenda.
—Grace Curley, Boston Herald, 13 Nov. 2024
Listeners who are willing to suspend their disbelief and/or decades of Dylan snobbery might just find that the record offers plenty of magic for the holidays.
—Stephanie Kaloi and James Mercadante, EW.com, 21 Dec. 2024
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Daniel Taylor, The Athletic, 6 July 2024
Shaw seems to study less than any pre-med in recorded history, rebeling against a Mommy Dearest played as an archaic caricature of rich snobbery by Nancy De Mayo.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 22 Jan. 2025
The thought leaders in the Democratic party are doubling down on their snobbery and condescension while refusing to acknowledge the voters’ repudiation of their entire agenda.
—Grace Curley, Boston Herald, 13 Nov. 2024
Listeners who are willing to suspend their disbelief and/or decades of Dylan snobbery might just find that the record offers plenty of magic for the holidays.
—Stephanie Kaloi and James Mercadante, EW.com, 21 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for snobbery
Noun
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But what unfolded in the White House on Friday was a striking departure—an unprecedented display of hostility, arrogance, and political theater that raises serious concerns about America's global leadership.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
3 Mar. 2025
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Reportedly, Tulip mastermind Charles Hegel (played with perfect measure of condescending arrogance by Josh Brener) has died in Kenya, and took with him all the necessary passwords needed to access the accounts of his many investors.—
Joe Leydon,
Variety,
28 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The volatility the markets just experienced oftentimes marks a turn in investor attitudes.—
Robert Barone,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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Such attitudes disregard the hard realities of life in the United States for certain Americans.—
K. Ward Cummings,
Baltimore Sun,
2 Mar. 2025
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This condition is what philosopher Charles Mills, speaking of the American context, labeled epistemological ignorance—a deliberate unknowing, an insistence on the myth of white superiority, of white exceptionalism.—
Christine Winter,
Artforum,
1 Mar. 2025
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And so Tyla’s comments were also taken as an insinuation of superiority over Black people.—
Funmi Fetto,
Vogue,
25 Feb. 2025
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There was a kind of a snobbism about it.—
Julian Sancton,
The Hollywood Reporter,
17 May 2022
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Of course, culture shock works the other way around, too, and the image of Southerners who venture to the cold, bitter North for college only to be met by cultural snobbism and insulting assumptions about their identities is itself a stereotype.—
Nicole LaPorte,
Town & Country,
2 Oct. 2022
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But, then, genuine misanthropic disdain is part of Verhoeven's tool kit.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
7 Mar. 2025
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Musk has long voiced disdain for Biden and notably was not invited to the administration's electric vehicle summit in 2021.—
Newsweek,
Newsweek,
7 Mar. 2025
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The cuts follow a similar move on the unscripted side, with around 5% of Lionsgate Alternative Television laid off in November amid an ongoing contraction in the TV business that has hit independent suppliers particularly hard.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
7 Mar. 2025
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The belt-tightening comes a few months after layoffs on the unscripted side, as 5% of Lionsgate Alternative Television staffers were shown the door in November.—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
7 Mar. 2025
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“Snobbery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snobbery. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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