| 词汇 | snobbery |
| 释义 | snobbery noun[ U ] disapprovinguk /ˈsnɒb.ər.i/ us /ˈsnɑː.bɚ.i/(alsosnobbishness) behaviour and opinions that are typical of a snob: 势利，虚荣 She accused me of snobbery because I sent my sons to a private school.她指责我虚荣，因为我送儿子上了一所私立学校。 Class & class-consciousness in general anti-bourgeois anti-snob arriviste bougie gentrification gentrify go/come down in the worldidiom go/come up in the worldidiom petit bourgeois petty bourgeois pleb plebby the bottom of the heapidiom the gentry the petite bourgeoisie the upper crust underclass ungenteel ungentrified upper class Examples of snobberysnobbery Nor did snobbery lead the old landed families to associate themselves with the values of the fashionable aristocracy. Thinking critically about genius does not mean we shall inevitably succumb to cultural snobbery or hero worship. They may have been victims of snobbery directed generally against professionals and men of business. There is little real dispute over the value of these all-purpose talents, even among those who reject the class snobbery of the mainline eugenicists. This sort of inverted snobbery would refuse ref lection, but would not escape the dialogue. Your missionaries preach brotherhood but you and they practise social snobbery and discrimination. I see no value in such "discrimination": if we are to have muck, let's have outright, sheer muck, rather than muck that pretends, by snobbery or irony, to be superior. Living in an imaginary world, they presented a pathetic spectacle, cut off by snobbery from those whom they should have been leading and by race from mainstream white society. Council education departments are often the worst offenders for this language snobbery. One cannot help wondering if the distance between the jazz and classical traditions has tended to be exaggerated, perhaps out of snobbery or (sometimes reverse) racism. Carmer the enlightened bureaucrat was not above using snobbery to defend publicity and elite autonomy. Was artisan culture as devoid of snobbery as is suggested here? It was, in part, exhilarating and liberating, blasting the traditional pieties surrounding the theatre in this country - the suffocating, elitist snobbery, middle-class prejudices, and poisonous atmosphere of self-congratulation. For a while it was but a painless form of snobbery—for those who indulged in it, if not for those who were its targets. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let us cut out the snobbery, the frills, and decide what is the right level of expenditure. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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