How to Use snobbery in a Sentence

snobbery

noun

• The costumes are lavish and the snobbery is off the charts.
  — Staff Author, Peoplemag, 22 Dec. 2022
• Some of this was pure snobbery, as the author Heil says.
  — Clive Thompson, Smithsonian, 30 Sep. 2017
• The cynicism and the snobbery of the British up against this heart and this warmth of this kind of character.
  — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 19 May 2021
• The theatre was not based in snobbery, and neither is the show’s culture.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2020
• Jane Austen, the great artist of spiteful snobbery and petty vengeance, knew this well.
  — Charlie Tyson, The Atlantic, 13 May 2021
• Even the danger becomes a form of snobbery: This is how much the food matters.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 Sep. 2022
• And yeah, a lot comes with that —there’s record store snobbery, and there’s audiophile (elitism).
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 17 July 2022
• Indeed there was a certain amount of snobbery about the idea of using shop-brand goods.
  — Kate Hardcastle, Forbes, 30 June 2022
• You just won’t be burdened with as many high ticket pours, or the wine snobbery that comes along with them.
  — Krista Simmons, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 May 2021
• For all its snobbery and fussiness, the one thing Time Inc. stood for was being modern.
  — Michael Wolff, Town & Country, 20 May 2013
• What faced him on the other side was snobbery and disrespect.
  — The Economist, 3 May 2018
• But that doesn’t mean the town is defined by snobbery, says Denise Mosher, who’s lived here for nearly 30 years.
  — Susan Moeller, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
• Wrapped in her summer furs and her beautiful snobbery, Ma looks out at the world with little love.
  — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2020
• Decades of writers, actors and others put their artistic snobbery in storage and came west to get rich off the movies.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• French snobbery met the ethic of French subversive art.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2020
• Cantinas aren’t a place for cocktail snobbery: Order tequila and beer or maybe a brandy neat.
  — Bon Appetit, 13 Apr. 2017
• Casey has an affable lack of artistic snobbery about his work.
  — Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle, 21 Feb. 2018
• Allowing her to claim a place in the style ethos goes against the industry's inherent snobbery.
  — Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 Mar. 2014
• In markets where spam is still looked-down upon, the need for affordable food trumps snobbery for many consumers in hard times.
  — James Griffiths, CNN, 26 Dec. 2020
• One of my best friends, who worked in radio, came up with the idea of a funny self-deprecating segment about me and my weird snobbery.
  — Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, 7 May 2018
• That is as inaccurate as the snobbery that Mr Huang decries.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• Marie Antoinette would have been proud of such gratuitous snobbery, but most of us in the media don’t mind eating a little cake.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2022
• The snobbery might be more widespread among the spandex-wearing weekend-warrior set.
  — Fortune, 20 July 2019
• Imagine her lapping up every word, her face aglow with envy, snobbery, thrills, and guilt.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2020
• The answer may come down to a resilient compound, in élite culture, of Platonic idealism and run-of-the-mill snobbery.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2018
• To buy its products was to proclaim oneself an It Girl without acquiring any of the stigma of snobbery.
  — Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2023
• The holiday cheese ball is a tradition too tasty to fall victim to petty snobbery.
  — WSJ, 24 Jan. 2020
• There’s a certain snobbery that some people have more or better knowledge.
  — Matt Jaffe, Los Angeles Magazine, 1 May 2018
• To me, the statement is filled with condescension and snobbery, implying a lower status to the receiver.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024
• Before the nominations, there were whispers that snobbery would derail the film’s Oscar hopes, but the results show some puzzlement on the part of Academy voters.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Sep 2024