Adjective : snobbish ideas about rank. From Dictionary.com.
There was, they felt, “a certain snobbish and faddish ‘interest’ in Negroes.”. From Wordnik.com. [White America Reacts] Reference
Who is the nobleman holding his boots out of the hotel window -- an act which the Snob very properly declined to classify as snobbish?. From Wordnik.com. [Lost Leaders] Reference
It's not just calling someone "snobbish," as Westmoreland claims. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central Morning Roundup] Reference
It might not be hard to frame this as a kind of snobbish bullying. From Wordnik.com. [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference
I mean, he didn't go in for that kind of snobbish social reporting. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America] Reference
Author Louise Bagshawe criticises 'snobbish' honours system. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
"He certainly wanted to be different from the rest of his family, and they were kind of snobbish," she says. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
Yet the celeb-obsessed pachyderms of the British book trade would no doubt dismiss such plaudits as the affectation of "snobbish" elitists. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
"snobbish" british accent as one of the things that bugs her. From Wordnik.com. [digg.com: Stories / Popular] Reference
Then she paused and said curtly: "The word 'snobbish' fits it better than 'barbarous.'. From Wordnik.com. [Sand Doom] Reference
"snobbish" white residents of other smallholdings in the area objected to the butchery. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
"Well, I reckon they'd come anyhow if they wanted to, but I must say, Mumsy, I'm kind of snobbish about your so-called beaux. From Wordnik.com. [The Comings of Cousin Ann] Reference
Mr. HAYES: ... he was always -- he was not snobbish. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrating Little Milton's Big Musical Career] Reference
There is no snob so snobbish as a snob of good birth. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
Franzen was called elitist, snobbish, unappreciative. From Wordnik.com. [Jason Pinter: Why Should We Celebrate Jonathan Franzen? Because Books Still Matter] Reference
However, there was nothing snobbish in David's attitude. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls] Reference
They were very snobbish, German, lovers of classical music. From Wordnik.com. [The 'Heart and Soul' of Frank Loesser] Reference
"Being a southern gentleman has made you slightly snobbish.". From Wordnik.com. [Ralestone Luck] Reference
Madge knew that Alfred Thornton was snobbish and mean-spirited. From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton's Secret] Reference
Bolshevism is as snobbish as Suburbia, that the poor man in the Park. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference
That drearily prevalent, invertedly snobbish contempt for articulacy?. From Wordnik.com. [To speak another language isn't just cultured, it's a blow against stupidity] Reference
But not even the most snobbish of them would have dared to brave Becky. From Wordnik.com. [The Trumpeter Swan] Reference
Gold was the symbol of cruel, snobbish plutocracy; silver of upright democracy. From Wordnik.com. [The United States Since the Civil War] Reference
She suffered some for her snobbish wonder; but she was conscious of a new, great joy. From Wordnik.com. [Winner Take All] Reference
The seven other freshmen had turned out to be delightful girls with no snobbish notions. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore] Reference
He was shy as "a wild mountain colt" and somewhat snobbish, and at first was most unpopular. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
"Even though the Pharisees are often very snobbish, they are the best people in our nation.". From Wordnik.com. [Men Called Him Master] Reference
If they have any snobbish weakness for display, it is in the number of retainers they can muster. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Impression of the Philippines] Reference
"The Automobile Girls" it was who caught "Raffles" red-handed, and who saved Bab's snobbish cousin. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobile Girls in the Berkshires The Ghost of Lost Man's Trail] Reference
The idolized son of a too-adoring, snobbish mother, he had nothing in common with Grace's high ideals. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer] Reference
Allys turned half about -- for two breaths at least she had a snobbish impulse to overlook Billy and hurry away. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
Louise gave no consideration whatsoever to Aunt Euphemia's snobbish stand in the matter of Lawford's social position. From Wordnik.com. [Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper] Reference
Emperor justice, others in turn have made him out to be arrogant, snobbish, bombastic, superficial, incompetent, and insincere. From Wordnik.com. [William of Germany] Reference
In this the Pragers fall into the snobbish habit of going outside their own country for the sake of finding some inept comparison. From Wordnik.com. [From a Terrace in Prague] Reference
She had not been so deeply impressed with the importance of Mignon and her friends that she failed to see their snobbish tendencies. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman] Reference
With the sophomore class almost entirely free from snobbish influences, the dance promised to be an occasion of undiluted enjoyment. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore] Reference
We had picked up the notion that Mr. Davis was a snobbish person; we found him a very friendly man; gentle, describes it, in manner. From Wordnik.com. [Walking-Stick Papers] Reference
Lady Martin paused, inherent meanness struggling with a snobbish desire to emulate the Duchess; and finally she gave in with a bad grace. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of a Soul] Reference
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