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Noun
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Whatever the reason, the Oscars can no longer afford the luxury of snobbery.—
Benjamin Svetkey,
HollywoodReporter,
18 June 2025 -
Elite food-world snobbery against big, bustling restaurants.—
Dwight Garner,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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Putin’s arrogance in wanting total Ukrainian surrender could prove his downfall, if only Trump sticks to his position.—
Daniel Fried,
Time,
15 July 2025
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The arrogance wasn’t hers alone; many people have tried to assign the Tully monster a place in the tree of life since it was first discovered 70 years ago.—
Cody Cottier,
Discover Magazine,
8 July 2025
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Rising inflation and tariff concerns also may have a hand in Gen Z’s new attraction to estate sales.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
26 July 2025
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But more are ready to act now, according to workplace savings professionals, based on a tax exclusion for these types of payments being made permanent as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, with adjustments for inflation starting in 2026.—
Cheryl Winokur Munk,
CNBC,
26 July 2025
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The kitchen borrowed the ingredient worship of Chez Panisse, but not its reverence for simplicity; the fancy culture-mash pizza of Spago, but not its Eurocentric hauteur; the cheffy precision of the French Laundry, but not its fussy formality.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2025
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There was some explanation for his elusiveness, quite apart from the everyday hauteur of the fashion industry.—
Rebecca Mead,
The New Yorker,
17 Mar. 2025
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“Snobbishness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snobbishness. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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