snobbily

[snahb-uh-lee]

adverb

1. in a snobby or condescending way; in the manner of a snob.

Example Sentences

But here’s the thing I’m realizing: If you believe, as I do, that the cultural products we take in matter—that they affect us and change us even when we arrogantly believe that we’re immune to their charms—then it makes no sense to snobbily defend an increasingly porous boundary between late-night TV and presidential addresses.

From Slate

He was the blue-collar cop whose hobbies and values his effete sons snobbily rejected; they were too busy trying to get tickets to the latest fashionable play, or hosting strategic parties that would propel them up the social ladder.

From Slate

Still, that instinctive sense of what it takes to connect with a mass audience — so often snobbily dismissed as “middlebrow” — is precisely what distinguishes Spielberg as an artist, and it allows “The Post” to go for broke with such unselfconscious energy, feeling and, every so often, sheer beauty.

From Washington Post

The Boomtown Rats never fitted properly into punk – punk was too snobbily English to accept these young Irishmen in their over-wide trousers – but they did very well in the charts.

From The Guardian