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
Both Wilman and Shindler discussed snobbery in the industry and how having a tabloid or soap sensibility could inform high-end unscripted and drama.
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K.j. Yossman, Variety, 17 Sep. 2024
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.
—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
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K.j. Yossman, Variety, 17 Sep. 2024
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for snobbery
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She's paired up with Xeni (voiced by Richard Ayoade), a daydream director looking to move up into the big leagues of nighttime dreams but has a lot of artistic arrogance.Christian Holub, EW.com, 20 Nov. 2024
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This can help alleviate concerns about potential arrogance or difficulty in adjusting to team dynamics. Follow me on Twitter or LinkedIn.Jack Kelly, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
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At the press conference Thursday, Humphrey said Dean’s hard work and positive attitude during his desk duty also weighed on his discipline decision.Josh Wood, The Courier-Journal, 21 Nov. 2024
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His positive attitude is contagious and students LOVE having him in class.Rebecca Loroff, Journal Sentinel, 18 Nov. 2024
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The film explores how the extremists combine violence, threatened or actual, with sophisticated social media campaigns to bring their pseudoscientific claims of racial superiority to the mainstream.Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Nov. 2024
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The wholesale engulfing of the myth of white superiority is what makes that kind of violence.Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 20 Nov. 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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Brought even closer by the death of their parents at an early age, Rosie’s love for Marian is only outpaced by her disdain for Norman Henry (Patinkin).Denise Petski, Deadline, 22 Nov. 2024
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Their discussion is redolent with disdain for the program and its enrollees — especially for beneficiaries of the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion, which added childless low-income households to a program that had chiefly covered families with children.Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2024
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Give them a minute to reinflate on the other side, then hang up your items to let the wrinkles fall out.David Pierce, WIRED, 23 Nov. 2024
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Up and down, side to side, no end, no beginning, no thrills, just motion sickness.Caleb Harris, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
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“Snobbery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snobbery. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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