snobbishness

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Noun
  • Sutton chose violence, chaos, snobbery, classism, and the gears of capitalism, which grind us all down, churning our bones to make their bread, including her own.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Is there any reason for using French besides pure snobbery?
    Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 3 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • There was a kind of a snobbism about it.
    Julian Sancton, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2022
  • 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
Noun
  • But what unfolded in the White House on Friday was a striking departure—an unprecedented display of hostility, arrogance, and political theater that raises serious concerns about America's global leadership.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Reportedly, Tulip mastermind Charles Hegel (played with perfect measure of condescending arrogance by Josh Brener) has died in Kenya, and took with him all the necessary passwords needed to access the accounts of his many investors.
    Joe Leydon, Variety, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • If the primary goal is jobs, while trying to control inflation and reduce the risk of recession, the tariffs would proceed in steps separated by 6 months or more.
    Steve Banker, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
  • European markets leaped after a report showed an easing of inflation in February.
    COMPILED BYDEMOCRAT-GAZETTE STAFFFROM WIRE REPORTS, arkansasonline.com, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Fortunately, Ruth has an elegant hauteur to call on in these situations.
    Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2025
  • They are written with a thuggish hauteur, as if Pacino’s Tony ‘Scarface’ Montana had been transplanted to the world of music promotion – all machismo and ultimatums.
    Martin McKenzie-Murray, SPIN, 7 Jan. 2025
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“Snobbishness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snobbishness. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.

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