snobby

[ snob-ee ]

/ ˈsnɒb i /

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adjective, snob·bi·er, snob·bi·est.

condescending, patronizing, or socially exclusive; snobbish.

Words nearby snobby

sno-cat, snob, snob appeal, snobbery, snobbish, snobby, snobol, snockered, snod, snodgrass, snoek

Origin of snobby

First recorded in 1840–50; snob + -y¹

OTHER WORDS FROM snobby

snob·bi·ly, adverbsnob·bi·ness, snob·bism, noun

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for snobbism

Her snobbism was arbitrary, and her prejudices were restricted to the rules and laws of her own personal kingdom.
Family Secrets in Tehran|Azar Nafisi|January 10, 2009|DAILY BEAST
Snobbism is not confined to the toadying of the rich, but is quite as often displayed in the toadying of the poor.
Character|Samuel Smiles
What history and romance there is about Pau is pretty well blotted out by twentieth-century snobbism, it would seem.
The Automobilist Abroad|M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
No; but there are plenty of people who will subscribe out of snobbism.
Mortal Coils|Aldous Huxley

It is a critical acuteness, not a snobbism, which last is selection on some other principle than that of a personal quality.
Instigations|Ezra Pound
Thackeray soon rushes away from his criticisms on snobbism to other matters.
Thackeray|Anthony Trollope