snobbery

How To Use snobbery In A Sentence

• He could spot hypocrisy, pomposity, smugness, snobbery, tomfoolery and turpitude from miles away.
• Horse riding suffers from the taint of elitism and snobbery which is a legacy of the past.
• The worst thing about Britain is that so many people are disenfranchised by price and snobbery. Times, Sunday Times
• But these tedious arguments have more to do with inverted snobbery than progressive values. Times, Sunday Times
• For some reason - whether through snobbery, ignorance, or the peculiarly British disease of self-deprecation - this valuable national treasure has been systematically trivialised and ridiculed over the years, to such an extent that today it remains almost unknown.
• He dismisses such talk as inverse snobbery. Times, Sunday Times
• Their intellectual snobbery seems limitless. The Times Literary Supplement
• This was inverse snobbery, it has been claimed. Times, Sunday Times
• All our intellectual snobbery is reserved for books; when it comes to the cinematic experience, we demand constant explosions, post-apocalyptic scenarios, lots of aliens/robots/asteroids, and/or large-scale natural disasters (with occasional exceptions made for arty French films, obvs). Archive 2009-12-01
• This is Jacobean comedy at its documentary best: a salty, vivid report on the eternal clash between the puritan ethic and spendthrift snobbery.