Condescension towards those with lower status

Usage examples of snobbery.

Excellent, too, is the passage in which his subordinate speaks of crushing the enemy in America, and Burgoyne asks him who will crush their enemies in England, snobbery and jobbery and incurable carelessness and sloth.

But the basic traits are there in Humbert Humbert: the immense culture and the exhibitionist pedantry, the fastidiousness and snobbery, the inability to align himself with any nationality - a fatal cosmopolitanism.

All the great Orders arose from dissatisfaction with the priests: that of the Franciscans with priestly snobbery, that of the Dominicans with priestly laziness and Laodiceanism, that of the Jesuits with priestly apathy and ignorance and indiscipline.

This is the straight neocon party, line, of course: If you deny that secular democracy is the destiny of every people, you are guilty of cultural snobbery.

She was a thorough daughter of the soil in her peasantlike matter-of-factness and doggedness, and her acceptance of great lords and kings and prelates as such without idolatry or snobbery, seeing at a glance how much they were individually good for.

If wanting to work with the Marshall Stones and the Bert Hanrattys of the world is snobbery, then I am a snob.

Northeastern liberals such as Jeffords call themselves Republicans in the first place is class snobbery.

He writes about journeys to the moon and to the bottom of the sea, and also he writes about small shopkeepers dodging bankruptcy and fighting to keep their end up in the frightful snobbery of provincial towns.

Their old-fashioned outlook, their graded snobberies, their mixture of bawdiness and hypocrisy, their extreme gentleness, their deeply moral attitude to life, are all mirrored there.

Eastern snobbery gave Coloradans no end of psychic pain, and the natives produced a multitude of bumper stickers to express their attendant disgust.

Now, though (and Mr Tiverton acquitted himself of snobbery because the district council had since put its eight houses on the market and had even succeeded in selling one to the sitting tenant), the ceremony was for the first-born of young Mr and Mrs Donald Pagetter, who had pots of money and a nice sense of style, and were related to the Lord Lieutenant of the county.

Well, they weren't exactlv intellectuals, so perhaps-partly out of naivete, partly out of snobbery and esprit de corps-they invented a personal ceremony to distinguish themselves from the other Crusaders.

They're in it because of boredom or snobbery, and they'll stop before they have their eye-hand coordination.

Dinner with the Fedders had been a tedious exercise in pretentious snobbery, and he wanted a little time to himself.

He really must get rid of the inverted snobbery that, with its opposite, is ingrained in so many of the English!