Meaning & use
snobbery
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Behavior or attitudes that show a belief in one's own superiority in taste, intellect, or social status.
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His constant name-dropping was seen by colleagues as pure snobbery.
The novel satirizes the snobbery of wealthy families in the nineteenth century.
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The word "snob" originally referred to a shoemaker or a person of low social rank before evolving into its modern meaning during the 19th century.
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elitismpretentiousness
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