How To Use Snobbery In A Sentence
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He could spot hypocrisy, pomposity, smugness, snobbery, tomfoolery and turpitude from miles away.
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Horse riding suffers from the taint of elitism and snobbery which is a legacy of the past.
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The worst thing about Britain is that so many people are disenfranchised by price and snobbery.
Times, Sunday Times
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But these tedious arguments have more to do with inverted snobbery than progressive values.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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He dismisses such talk as inverse snobbery.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their intellectual snobbery seems limitless.
The Times Literary Supplement
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This was inverse snobbery, it has been claimed.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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This is Jacobean comedy at its documentary best: a salty, vivid report on the eternal clash between the puritan ethic and spendthrift snobbery.
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That's just snobbery: faze is a useful verb implying a minor disturbance.
Times, Sunday Times
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The emotional drive behind the anti-chain crusade is an understandable mistrust of big corporations allied with the knee-jerk snobbery that is never far from the surface in American cultural life.
Two—Make That Three—Cheers for the Chain Bookstores
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You keep saying that, unless I think the BSO is overpaid, I'm some kind of snob, but you yourself are a snob from the other end, and I don't put any more moral stock in populist snobbery than elitist snobbery.
In the ballpark
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There is plenty of unfounded snobbery as well (Where the dead sergeant's wife becomes the general's widow) and wannabee poets, artists and the suchlike finding happiness in their reinventions.
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There is a slight intellectual snobbery about it.
Times, Sunday Times
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To carry the analogy a little further, the Japanese would be the English of Asia - reserved, effete, cultured to the point of snobbery, at least in the face they present to outsiders.
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This reticence, according to another fashion expert, is partly reverse snobbery.
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Alongside its class snobbery and scurrilous hilarity this poem also argues that truth cannot reside in a periodical publication: "Truth," Peter declaims, "Lifts her fair head, and looks with brow sublime/On all the fading pageantries of time" (Works 271) and especially on a magazine full of puffery, interest, and sham learning.
'Manlius to Peter Pindar':Satire, Patriotism, and Masculinity in the 1790s
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Hating himself for that snobbery, he drove the boy harder, refusing to admit to himself that he was failing.
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The musical difficulty, the nasal quality of the tone and the fact that everyone tunes off the oboe gives double reed players an aura of snobbery; whether it's real or perceived depends on the player.
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There is a lot of pretentiousness and snobbery associated with literature.
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Sorting out the divide between academic and vocational subjects, and ending the snobbery towards technical training features in all three parties' education manifestos.
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Here's all the snobbery and inverted snobbery you can think of.
Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
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Popular culture snobbery Not so long ago cultural snobs held all the cards.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not out of snobbery, but to protect them from the whiff of a stinking bishop.
Times, Sunday Times
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The snobbery began, I suspect, with sun-dried tomatoes, and has now arrived - via shaved truffles and edamame - at a point where the search for the rare and the downright impossible-to-get has become the foundation of menu-building.
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To some, this indicated a fickleness, a shallowness, an inverted snobbery, an unseemly arrested development.
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I do think there is a certain snobbery, especially in American literary criticism, that leads to the promotion of bloated, weak fiction, and that should be rightly condemned.
Snark: Joe Hagan on ‘haute zoologist’ Heidi Julavits
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There are still some cases of snobbery and elitism in Oxbridge admissions, but this situation won't be helped by government quotas.
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Her novel is a satire on social snobbery.
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Still, the main effect of Richard Eyre's intricate and absorbing production is not to recreate the enamelled snobbery of the Simpson entourage.
The Last of the Duchess; 13; The Village Social – review
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It's with no small amount of self-consciousness that you write or read - or, jeepers, review - a book on snobbery.
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So get over the badge snobbery.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is a place with no need for pretension, shameless self-promotion or global snobbery.
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And one person described Gaelic as ‘the tinker's language ’, so that there's obviously some sort of snobbery about the language going on there.
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He could spot hypocrisy, pomposity, smugness, snobbery, tomfoolery and turpitude from miles away.
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Snobbery be damned, he thought, here was a bunch of actors provoking the kind of wild, untempered enthusiasm he could only dream about.
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It represents the welcome victory of artistic enjoyment over intellectual snobbery.
Times, Sunday Times
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More recently the hotel descended into a mockery of its former self, snobbish for snobbery's sake, until rescued in 1995.
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That reckons without British badge snobbery, though.
Times, Sunday Times
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Poor old opera: battered by charges of elitism, inaccessibility and snobbery, it would be easy to predict its coming death.
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I was accused of intellectual snobbery for pointing out that more people tend to drop out of the less academic subjects.
Times, Sunday Times
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Franzen acknowledges the snobbery inherent in his comments, but argues that such elitism is ‘not the reprehensible attitude’ that people commonly believe it to be.
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Some accountants have attacked the merchant banks for their inflated self-image and snobbery.
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They are all such comic caricatures that they are incapable of conveying real human cruelty or vicious snobbery.
Times, Sunday Times
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What is it about massed bulbs that brings out such snobbery in gardeners?
Times, Sunday Times
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There were music festival and modern dancing, riding to hounds or other kinds of snobbery.
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EU snobbery blamed for curbs on low-alcohol wine
Times, Sunday Times
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If it is not wide-ranging and erratic, captious and unpredictable, it is not taste but snobbery.
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This was inverse snobbery, it has been claimed.
Times, Sunday Times
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The snobbery and hatred of meritocracy that have been revealed this week are simply inevitable further by-products of monarchy.
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You keep saying that, unless I think the BSO is overpaid, I'm some kind of snob, but you yourself are a snob from the other end, and I don't put any more moral stock in populist snobbery than elitist snobbery.
In the ballpark
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There is something a bit high-hatted about them -- something that suggests intellectual snobbery.
Certain Aspects of British Life and Thought
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An occasional snobbery still persists - theatre is the high art, film its lesser cousin.
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Really? and not one point of view is backed up with any substance; the snobbery about the orbit, for example, which is twice so lazily described as wonky, does not shed any light on mr long's objection to the idea or the execution. in fact re-reading this - out of sheer disbelief - i find no real content whatsoever. a terrible article, a terrible journalist.
Evening Standard - Home
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He started on a downbeat note, reminding us of the Establishment's crawling opening party to launch the channel, which was full of snobbery and intellectual pretension.
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There is nothing amusing about snobbery, racism, bigotry, misogyny and xenophobia.
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We were confronting the current snobbery surrounding design - like the assumption that the only ones who can design are these tastemakers, these experts.
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The worst thing about Britain is that so many people are disenfranchised by price and snobbery.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was part of my intellectual snobbery to avoid the obvious and predictable wherever possible.
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The big literary awards, I came to believe, had much to do with politics, snobbery, and taste, and were no guarantee of quality.
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Horse riding suffers from the taint of elitism and snobbery which is a legacy of the past.
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The snobbery was in keeping with the times and provoked indulgent smiles.
FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
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We had to try some of this liquid inverse snobbery.
Times, Sunday Times
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The implied criticism of those who make different choices is a form of old-fashioned snobbery.
Times, Sunday Times
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Epstein has defined the essence of snobbery as not merely the wish to impress others but the effort to make oneself feel superior at the expense of others.
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The snobbery and hatred of meritocracy that have been revealed this week are simply inevitable further by-products of monarchy.
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Isabelle is quick to refute any suggestion of intellectual snobbery.
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Her novel is a satire on social snobbery.
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There is no value in inverted snobbery in Tehran today.
Times, Sunday Times
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They considered her behaviour a shameful piece of snobbery.
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The snobbery and hatred of meritocracy that have been revealed this week are simply inevitable further by-products of monarchy.
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How she was the home of lies and flies, the grave of reputation, the refuge of the remittance man and the bad egg; the land of the unexpected pest, but never the unexpected blessing; of sunstroke and fever; scandals and broken careers; snobbery, bobbery, and highway robbery.
Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa
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Fans of such cheap television will accuse me of snobbery and elitism.
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We, must take RESPONSIBILITY to FIX this world and SHE (THEY!) will just reign supreme in jocular sniping snobbery.
In ad wars, Obama spends more but Clinton sets tempo
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Intellectual snobbery is so over, I chided myself, before launching into an orgy of sheer, joyous banality.
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He dismisses such talk as inverse snobbery.
Times, Sunday Times
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As I explain further in the following chapter, Kojève is known for ascertaining two different types of possible social formation in the postmodern era: the animalization of society as seen in the U.S. model and the spread of snobbery as illustrated in the Japanese model.
Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » Azuma Hiroki on Postmodernism
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I didn't want to add to the pretension and the snobbery, the clubbiness that I loathe in the wine world.
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It is pure snobbery to loom at athletes as ‘dumb jocks.’
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There is a lot of snobbery - it's looked upon as a bit uncouth.
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But snobbery aside, could it be that a fashion for interrogatory esotericism does not stop with dusty academics?
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The play's targets – establishment fustiness, snobbery, racism and duplicity – aren't surprising, but the serpentine subtlety of the plotting is.
The Children's Hour; Plenty; The Heretic – review
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It was the whole damned caboodle: the clever dickery, the snobbery, the preppy prissiness and the screaming, stomach-churning, nausea-inducing, and apparently universal, contempt for women.
Christina Patterson: The Social Network That Made Me Sick
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There's no need to worry about badge snobbery with the Tivoli.
Times, Sunday Times
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In this regard, Kojève is oddly sympathetic towards Japan, and he predicts that the Japanization (or snobbery) of Westerners will prevail over Americanization (or animalization).
Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » Azuma Hiroki on Postmodernism
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Wine has had a tendency to carry with it a stigma of elitism and snobbery.
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Dad was always the grateful recipient of her snobbery.
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This was inverse snobbery, it has been claimed.
Times, Sunday Times
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I would not mind seeing the whole nation in dyed battledress for five years if by that means one of the main breeding points of snobbery and envy could be eliminated.
As I Please
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He is now reviving the and says that it is time for the to end its inverted snobbery.
Times, Sunday Times
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Brearley has combined a scholarly mind with a lack of intellectual snobbery and has friends throughout the game.
Times, Sunday Times
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The worst thing about Britain is that so many people are disenfranchised by price and snobbery.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pacific oysters are not as esteemed as natives but turning down a plate of spanking fresh Pacifics is simply misplaced snobbery.
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A bit of élan and sleight of hand and perhaps just a twist of snobbery and insincere flattery wouldn't go amiss.
Times, Sunday Times
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If we allow this ban to go through unopposed, we are giving the government permission to criminalise people who pursue an activity that most people disapprove of on no better grounds than a peculiarly British snobbery.
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It's snobbery as a spectator blood sport, the social equivalent of bearbaiting.
Times, Sunday Times
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I don’t think so – I think that rigidly stating that the only truly authentic hot and sour soup in the world has duck blood in it and certainly not lemongrass is promoting food snobbery and is ultimately detrimental to the understanding that cuisines develop and grow over time.
Tigers & Strawberries » What the Hell Does Authentic Mean, Anyway?
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His call-up confirms once again that Fabio Capello is unburdened by snobbery or preconceptions.
Kevin Davies gets surprise England call-up for Montenegro game
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Isabelle is quick to refute any suggestion of intellectual snobbery.
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Popular culture snobbery Not so long ago cultural snobs held all the cards.
Times, Sunday Times
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This programme smells not of interested inquiry but of a rather nasty cultural snobbery.
Times, Sunday Times
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According to Slotover, Jopling, a good friend to both Hugh Grant and Allen's father, the hell-raising actor Keith, epitomises the lack of class snobbery he sees in the contemporary art world.
Jay Jopling: portrait of the perfect gallerist | profile
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Fans of such cheap television will accuse me of snobbery and elitism.
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Aesthetic shopping lists, cultural death lists, intellectual snobbery.
Times, Sunday Times
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I despise snobbery, smugness and complacency.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are all such comic caricatures that they are incapable of conveying real human cruelty or vicious snobbery.
Times, Sunday Times
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Your East Coast intellectual and social snobbery is leaking out around the mask, old buddy.
Just Go Away - All of You - Please - NASA Watch
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The writer adopted a toplofty attitude toward his creatures, but he had the intellectual force to transform snobbery into satire.
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The answer is the problematic issue of badge snobbery.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is spoiled, arrogant and has a tendency towards snobbery.
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Ignore the badge snobbery and listen to the V8 engine note.
Times, Sunday Times
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Haynes' film then becomes a melancholy commentary on the bigotry and snobbery of fifties Middle America.
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But for Lincoln Center Festival to commit so big a chunk of time and money to a spectacle so costly that it must be promoted for well over a year in advance strongly suggests to me that the decidedly nonartistic value of British-is-best snobbery is also at work here.
Lincoln Center Buys British
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Instead, I shall bask in all this glory and hope it brings me new found arrogance, snobbery and untold riches so I can retire to Pismo Beach and be a happy miser.
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This is a place with no need for pretension, shameless self-promotion or global snobbery.
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He knows Tom is not one of their breed and treats him with the condescension and snobbery that his privileged class affords him.
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Yet I have never seen a community so competitive, so full of snobbery and flunkeyism, a ruling class so selfish and so class-conscious, or a proletariat so fawning, so lacking in all solidarity and sense of corporate honour.
Surprised by Joy
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We had to try some of this liquid inverse snobbery.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are all such comic caricatures that they are incapable of conveying real human cruelty or vicious snobbery.
Times, Sunday Times
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Worse still (‘mate’ being a pretty working-class appellation, after all), is this a symptom of snobbery which my school, despite my best efforts, succeeded in indoctrinating me with?
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At best it was a snobbery which wholly overlooked his timing, eye and exactitude of judgment and imagery.
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My friend had to leave the shop, he was laughing so hard at this exquisite mini drama of British snobbery.
Times, Sunday Times
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Apple is the Micorosft of the 2000s only there's still this air of conceitedness and snobbery that hasn't dulled despite the increase in perception of Apple's as common.
Bad Apple: An Argument Against Buying An iPhone | Lifehacker Australia
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This snobbery is perhaps the last remaining vestige or outcrop of the once formidable massif of Victorian optimism.
Hubris, thy name is Gonzo!
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Mercurial, often waspish and at times given to unwarrantable snobbery, she was free to indulge herself, yet at the same time she was imprisoned by the constraints of the life that gave her all she wanted.
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Dad was always the grateful recipient of her snobbery.
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Her artificial world was redolent of orchids and pleasant , cheerful snobbery.
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It's a long time since I heard such unmitigated snobbery.
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He answered me warmly that he entirely joined issue with me in such an opinion, and that he was often affected to sickishness by the snobbery of mundane society, adding that he hoped I would give him the look up at his paternal mansion in Prince's Square, Bayswater, shortly, since his people would be overjoyed at making my acquaintance, which both enraptured and surprised me, for hitherto he had ridden the high and rough-shoed horse, and employed me to suck my brains as a cat's foot.
Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
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The challenger belongs to Tory MP Richard Bacon, whose ‘about me’ section lists snobbery and racism as pet hates.
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The snobbery is hateful, but you can see that Kipling - the poet of Empire would have no sympathy for Gordon Brown's idea.
Rudyard Kipling answers Gordon Brown
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That's what helped him get past the hard times and small minds and the inverted snobbery.
The Sun
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I think ‘distasteful,’ ‘gross’ and ‘a new low for your magazine’ are words of snobbery and pretension.
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If we allow this ban to go through unopposed, we are giving the government permission to criminalise people who pursue an activity that most people disapprove of on no better grounds than a peculiarly British snobbery.
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I despise snobbery, smugness and complacency.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's also true that there's a kind of moral snobbery; a miserabilist high ground.
Times, Sunday Times
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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).
Terminator Offers Some Lessons for the Salvation of Your Novel
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He dismisses such talk as inverse snobbery.
Times, Sunday Times
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But times are fresh and proof is mostly based on wild innuendo and moral snobbery in these dawn days of post-America.
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BRITISH car buyers are obsessed with badge snobbery.
The Sun
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a prissy and emotionless creature...settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery
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We had to try some of this liquid inverse snobbery.
Times, Sunday Times
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There were music festival and modern dancing, riding to hounds or other kinds of snobbery.
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It may be partly why there is a degree of inverted snobbery about his rise.
Times, Sunday Times
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The snobbery is completely unjustifiable.
The Sun
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Inverse snobbery in some underclass households is quintessentially charver and I suspect the Sociofascists love this, as it breeds a new, larger ever-dependent lumpen mass who will vote for them.
Fiona Millar on 'Segregational Selection'
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All Sayers's hallmarks are here – ingenuity, in-depth research (but without the hairballs of factual information that too often clogged up the originals), dialogue peppered with quotations, and archness of tone (but without the grating snobbery).
Laura Wilson's crime fiction choice - review
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Oh, the inhumanity of it all, the snobbery, the poor lamb.
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TOADY emphasizes the servility and snobbery of the self-seeker cultivated leaders of society and became their toady.
Firedoglake » Bush’s Favorite Democrat Wows the Connecticut Press — Again
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It's bordering on elitist snobbery, and is already as boring as the series.
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The whole cult of celebrity is so boring but the snobbery is just as bad.
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There is nothing amusing about snobbery, racism, bigotry, misogyny and xenophobia.
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The snobbery is kept in place by those who work in the industry, and genre is exploited, as if for minerals, in order to fuel sales of, say, "post-modern" fiction.
MIND MELD: The Future of Written Science Fiction
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I would post something coherent about wider society's contempt of fandom because it's play engaged in by adults (I think it was The Joy Of Sex which said bed was the only time grownups get to play), the relationship between fan fiction (play) and writing for publication (work), the contempt of each age group for the next younger group, and the hierarchies of literary snobbery in my head, but frankly I'm too knackered. *goes back to bed*
News from the House of Sticks -
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There is a lot of pretentiousness and snobbery associated with literature.
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At its worst it's cultural snobbery.
Times, Sunday Times
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University students go home in their droves over the holidays, pouring scorn on familiar sights with the snobbery of the citified nouveau riche.
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Like the protesters of subsequent generations, they laid themselves open to the charge of snobbery.
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Not out of snobbery, but to protect them from the whiff of a stinking bishop.
Times, Sunday Times
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The worst thing about Britain is that so many people are disenfranchised by price and snobbery.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are all such comic caricatures that they are incapable of conveying real human cruelty or vicious snobbery.
Times, Sunday Times
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Jeremiah Wright apparently had some good things to say during Obama's early years at his church, which included both inner-city people and those who had made it from the ghetto to middle-class life: He encouraged his congregation to better themselves so they could rise out of poverty, but he also condemned "middleclassness", which he defined as snobbery and a superior attitude on the part of some middle-class people.
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