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snobbiness

[snahb-ee-nis]

noun

  1. the quality of being snobby.



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Musk reacted to all these sensible criticisms with a 4chan-style meme that misses the point entirely, but wallows in right-wing pique over the supposed snobbiness of liberals.

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Along with the gendered snobbiness aimed at romcoms, there have also been plenty of fair critiques: it is true that they almost exclusively told white, wealthy, heterosexual stories.

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“I think there’s a snobbiness to the fact that people think just because these guys are not part of the NBA, they’re not the highest level of basketball that we have,” Cube said.

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“Snobbiness comes more from the hard-core natural winemakers who think anything with sulfur dioxide is trash,” he said.

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I think the one that’s more shocking to me than the snobbiness—and I agree, there was a certain snobbiness to some of that—is the cruelty, which I still can’t quite get over, has not registered more with people.

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