snobbery

[snob-uh-ree]

noun

plural

snobberies 

1. snobbish character, conduct, trait, or act.

Word History and Origins

Origin of snobbery¹

First recorded in 1825–35; snob + -ery

Example Sentences

But it’s not snobbery that has kept me away.

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Eliot got it from the start, but in Woolf’s case bafflement joined forces with snobbery.

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The townspeople are undifferentiated, and they are solidly united in their snobbery, antisemitism and resistance to changing mores.

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But if one were to remove the veil of snobbery and suspicion dividing urban and rural America, one would find a lot more Hanks and Peggys in the world than far-right trolls.

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Dunham says the rom-com genre was the first she ever loved, but developed internalized snobbery around it as she got older.

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Related Words

• arrogance 
• pretension