How to Use snobbery in a Sentence
snobbery
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The costumes are lavish and the snobbery is off the charts.
—Staff Author, Peoplemag, 22 Dec. 2022
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Some of this was pure snobbery, as the author Heil says.
—Clive Thompson, Smithsonian, 30 Sep. 2017
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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
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The theatre was not based in snobbery, and neither is the show’s culture.
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2020
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Jane Austen, the great artist of spiteful snobbery and petty vengeance, knew this well.
—Charlie Tyson, The Atlantic, 13 May 2021
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Even the danger becomes a form of snobbery: This is how much the food matters.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 Sep. 2022
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And yeah, a lot comes with that —there’s record store snobbery, and there’s audiophile (elitism).
—Chris Willman, Variety, 17 July 2022
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Indeed there was a certain amount of snobbery about the idea of using shop-brand goods.
—Kate Hardcastle, Forbes, 30 June 2022
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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
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For all its snobbery and fussiness, the one thing Time Inc. stood for was being modern.
—Michael Wolff, Town & Country, 20 May 2013
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What faced him on the other side was snobbery and disrespect.
—The Economist, 3 May 2018
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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
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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
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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
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French snobbery met the ethic of French subversive art.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2020
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Cantinas aren’t a place for cocktail snobbery: Order tequila and beer or maybe a brandy neat.
—Bon Appetit, 13 Apr. 2017
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Casey has an affable lack of artistic snobbery about his work.
—Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle, 21 Feb. 2018
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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
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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
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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
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That is as inaccurate as the snobbery that Mr Huang decries.
—The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
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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
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The snobbery might be more widespread among the spandex-wearing weekend-warrior set.
—Fortune, 20 July 2019
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Imagine her lapping up every word, her face aglow with envy, snobbery, thrills, and guilt.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2020
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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
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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
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The holiday cheese ball is a tradition too tasty to fall victim to petty snobbery.
—WSJ, 24 Jan. 2020
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There’s a certain snobbery that some people have more or better knowledge.
—Matt Jaffe, Los Angeles Magazine, 1 May 2018
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To me, the statement is filled with condescension and snobbery, implying a lower status to the receiver.
—Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024
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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
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