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词汇 snobbish
释义 snobbish
adjective
 disapprovinguk /ˈsnɒb.ɪʃ/ us /ˈsnɑː.bɪʃ/(informalsnobby)
C2
like a snob: 势利的;爱虚荣的
My brother is very snobbish about cars.我弟弟很讲究汽车的档次。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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

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snobbishly

Examples of snobbish


snobbish
I do not think that any arrogant, snobbish intervention, giving us lessons about this or that, helps us either.
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We, too, should stop this snobbish division between what is useful and what is true.
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That is an entirely good thing and meets the snobbish idea of parents that the public provision of education should be avoided.
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That is an old-fashioned and snobbish attitude towards those concerned with producing goods.
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We sometimes use a more offensive word than that and say that it is largely snobbish.
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That sort of thing ought to disappear with many of the other snobbish attitudes in our social system.
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I thought that one reason given for the non-disclosure of the information was extraordinarily snobbish.
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After all, it is a snobbish, class thing; it cannot be anything else.
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I believe the reason to be that many teachers have the wrong bias, and a snobbish outlook.
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There is a snobbish attitude to the industry.
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It is high time that the trout lost its slightly snobbish aspect.
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I acquit him, as he assured us that he had no snobbish or class distinction ideas about the matter.
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As a beginning, he tells us that it is a snobbish institution and a close corporation.
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We have nothing to be snobbish about except our character, of which we are very proud.
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I was amused at the suggestion that we were snobbish in the mining industry.
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