On the contrary, a harmless old-fashioned snobbishness is perceptible all through his work. From Wordnik.com. [In Defence of P. G. Wodehouse] Reference
You get no further if you do not realize that snobbishness is bound up with a species of idealism. From Wordnik.com. [The Road to Wigan Pier] Reference
(But make it a Hudson Baby Bourbon … because apparently, this snobbishness is deeply engrained …). From Wordnik.com. [Rants] Reference
The snobbishness is somewhat less open than in the Gem and Magnetthat is the most one can possibly say. From Wordnik.com. [Boys' Weeklies] Reference
He sees field-sports as primarily an exercise in snobbishness, which they already were in the England of that date. From Wordnik.com. [As I Please] Reference
No one could scoff so loudly and violently as could Forster, at what is called snobbishness. From Wordnik.com. [John Forster] Reference
And what was sensibility but a kind of snobbishness?. From Wordnik.com. [Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise] Reference
But there is a much more subtle kind of snobbishness pervading the atmosphere of any society trial in England. From Wordnik.com. [What I Saw in America] Reference
The best-selling author claims that "snobbishness" has left popular culture under-represented by the honours system. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
It's an odd kind of snobbishness, really - if you read the text, you do get a lot of hints about the future of the series as well. From Wordnik.com. [The Comics Journal] Reference
There was not merely a little of snobbishness in her. From Wordnik.com. [Winner Take All] Reference
Unfortunately Chesterton is not nearly hard enough on snobbishness. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference
There seemed to be an element of snobbishness or elitism, Van Riet said. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Some one must help her see the utter folly of snobbishness and false pride. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl and Her Religion] Reference
He was frowning now; this statement definitely smacked of Livian snobbishness. From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
And that is the trade-mark stamped upon most of us -- selfishness! snobbishness!. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
There is more comradeship and less snobbishness in college than there used to be. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Allen: Right Guard] Reference
Howland are thoroughbreds an 'thoroughbreds ain't capable of no low-down snobbishness. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy Stewart at School] Reference
Adding insufferable snobbishness to his present personality was piling Pelion on Ossa. From Wordnik.com. [Pagan Passions] Reference
Gwendolyn, taking the part of Albertina, on the subject of this snobbishness of attitude. From Wordnik.com. [Turn About Eleanor] Reference
The author shows a just appreciation of what is good-breeding and what is snobbishness. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Cookery] Reference
The joy has evaporated, he says, as wine has become surrounded by complexity and snobbishness. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Diva Is Wine] Reference
Far away from her cigarettes and her snobbishness, her cliquish friends, her atrocious spelling. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
And there is a certain blue-blood snobbishness to the place, according to people in Buenos Aires. From Wordnik.com. [A Province That Works] Reference
This will not work because, for all his wealth, there is not one piece of snobbishness about Cameron. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
For Russians, a snob has come to mean a self-made man, or a person who has gained the right to snobbishness. From Wordnik.com. [Russian Snob Lands in New York] Reference
After the deliverance of her mind on the snobbishness of poor people in the use of the hearse, she continued. From Wordnik.com. [Lancashire Idylls (1898)] Reference
This same feeling is reflected, more especially among the leaders of the men, in the complete disappearance of snobbishness. From Wordnik.com. [Life in a Tank] Reference
It has been said that by reason of writing so much about snobs that Thackeray came to see snobbishness where there was none. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
It is pleasant to meet people who are so secure in their position that they do not feel the slightest need for snobbishness. From Wordnik.com. [Sweetapple Cove] Reference
"Snob, to us, means a person who is a 'self-made man' -- a person who has gained a right to snobbishness," Mr. Schmarov said. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicling rise] Reference
"There is still a certain amount of snobbishness about English wine," says Dutchman Eric Heerema, who acquired Nytimeber in 2006. From Wordnik.com. [A New Breed of Epicurean Delights] Reference
One is there ` s a very serious snobbishness to the progressive mindset, this idea that we need to take care of the little people. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 19, 2008] Reference
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