Other Word Forms
- snobbishly adverb
- snobbishness noun
- unsnobbish adjective
- unsnobbishly adverb
- unsnobbishness noun
Etymology
Origin of snobbish
Example Sentences
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How easily we become snobbish about ingredients that offer smart, flavorful solutions for real bodies and finite energy.
From Salon
Kennedy admits she has to stop herself from being snobbish about the definition.
From Salon
The snobbish sommelier is a relic from the past—a figure from a less-enlightened time in wine.
At its worst, Orange County appears to be nouveau-riche snobbish, insecure, artificially flavored and colored, vapid, priggish and drearily sanitized.
From Los Angeles Times
The critique felt not just snobbish, but oddly incurious, a misreading of cakes that are, at heart, celebrations of joy.
From Salon
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