reverse snobbism
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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“It was definitely reverse snobbism,” Frantz said.
From The Guardian
“It’s almost like a reverse snobbism.”
From Washington Post
That argument reflected the reverse snobbism of intellectuals who were unwilling to grant that the rich and the worldly were worthy of a novelist's attention, as if there had been no Proust.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The challenge of "living free," seeing Europe on a shoestring and with a sleeping bag, has elements of reverse snobbism that appeal to the professed antimaterialistic instincts of youth.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Lynes finds himself guilty above all of Reverse Snobbism.
From Time Magazine Archive
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