adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Snobbish home-owners are protesting about a refugee family moving into their street.
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Aunt Harriet was very rich and very snobbish .
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his snobbish attitude to soap operas on TV
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She's very snobbish about people who live in the suburbs.
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Some people find her snobbish , but she's really just shy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He does not think much of the Midwest, which he calls a backward, dumb but snobbish place.
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He found the Etonians snobbish , shallow, seemingly unprepared for the world as it was being transformed by the war.
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He was a cheapskate of Scroogelike dimensions, vengeful and snobbish .
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I would have been insufferably snobbish and complacent.
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Pip now falls into a snobbish habit of connecting high social status with moral superiority.
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She knew it was snobbish , that she was just like any other package holiday-maker.
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Some of my friends thought I was snobbish to come here, because they charge tuition and everything.
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We thought this rather a joke but his concern was academic, not snobbish .