as in arrogance
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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
That’s Emily in a nutshell, the plucky, overly naive, yet always resourceful marketing agency heroine who has spent three previous seasons overcoming French snobbery toward her ideas and enchanting all nearby men in the 20 to 50 age range.
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Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 17 Aug. 2024
Yet, this was not merely a victory over France’s formidable wine snobbery.
—Johnny Noakes, Hartford Courant, 20 May 2024
Of course, wineries will still have to contend with overcoming consumer reluctance and lingering snobbery over alternative packaging.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 23 Apr. 2024
But after a decade or more of Game of Thrones, The Mandalorian, WandaVision, and Andor making themselves at home among the Emmy nominees, that snobbery no longer applies.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2024
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Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 17 Aug. 2024
Yet, this was not merely a victory over France’s formidable wine snobbery.
—Johnny Noakes, Hartford Courant, 20 May 2024
Of course, wineries will still have to contend with overcoming consumer reluctance and lingering snobbery over alternative packaging.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 23 Apr. 2024
But after a decade or more of Game of Thrones, The Mandalorian, WandaVision, and Andor making themselves at home among the Emmy nominees, that snobbery no longer applies.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for snobbery
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Dastmalchian gets to play it all — disbelief, arrogance, grieving, terrified — sometimes in the same moment.Jenelle Riley, Variety, 31 Oct. 2024
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These things are a big investment of time and to have not one, but two of them that might otherwise have had a reasonable expectation of success — probably arrogance on my part — but still, many times an author who gets published once can get published a second time.Choire Sicha, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2024
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That attitude ties in with another of the DOL’s principles, which recommends that AI should be used only to enable workers, which, in turn, could improve their job quality.Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 5 Nov. 2024
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Read the full analysis here. 2:03 Broad economic discontent and sharp divisions about the nation’s future mark voter attitudes nationally in ABC News' preliminary exit poll results.ABC News, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2024
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While picking up genuine concerns reported by American and international media in what has been a contentious and violent US election cycle, the coverage and conversation appears geared to telegraph the superiority of China’s own political system.Simone McCarthy, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024
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Even in foods where New Yorkers claim eternal superiority, L.A. just does it better.Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2024
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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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Too many liberals forgot this, which explains how a figure like Trump, with his boisterous and transgressive disdain for liberal pieties, could be reelected to the presidency.Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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The southpaw hasn't voiced any disdain for the franchise and the Braves value him tremendously.David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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In the mountains, the system arriving Wednesday was expected to bring 2-4 inches of snow above 5,500 feet west of state Highway 395 and 1-4 inches of snow on the west side of Lake Tahoe, according to the weather service.Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
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The headband has similar, but lighter, padding under the center, with more rigid sections also covered in microfiber on the sides just above the earcup mounting points.PCMAG, PCMAG, 12 Nov. 2024
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“Snobbery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snobbery. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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