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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
snobbish
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Snobbish home-owners are protesting about a refugee family moving into their street.
▪ Aunt Harriet was very rich and very snobbish.
▪ his snobbish attitude to soap operas on TV
▪ She's very snobbish about people who live in the suburbs.
▪ Some people find her snobbish, but she's really just shy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He does not think much of the Midwest, which he calls a backward, dumb but snobbish place.
▪ He found the Etonians snobbish, shallow, seemingly unprepared for the world as it was being transformed by the war.
▪ He was a cheapskate of Scroogelike dimensions, vengeful and snobbish.
▪ I would have been insufferably snobbish and complacent.
▪ Pip now falls into a snobbish habit of connecting high social status with moral superiority.
▪ She knew it was snobbish, that she was just like any other package holiday-maker.
▪ Some of my friends thought I was snobbish to come here, because they charge tuition and everything.
▪ We thought this rather a joke but his concern was academic, not snobbish.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Snobbish

Snobbish \Snob"bish\, a. Of or pertaining to a snob; characteristic of, or befitting, a snob; vulgarly pretentious. -- Snob"bish*ly, adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
snobbish

1840, "pertaining to snobs," from snob + -ish. Meaning "with the character of a snob" is from 1849. Related: Snobbishly; snobbishness.

Wiktionary
snobbish

a. Having the property of being a snob; arrogant and pretentious; smugly superior or dismissive of perceived inferiors.

WordNet
snobbish

adj. befitting or characteristic of those who inclined to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior [syn: clannish, cliquish, clubby, snobby]

Usage examples of "snobbish".

Naturally, I pay no attention to her snobbish nonsense about misalliances, which is ridiculous and out-of-date.

Boca Osa was not in the least pleased to be forced to afford lodging to armed troops of the excommunicant French trespassers, still less to courteously entertain their snobbish officers, some of whom he recognized anyway as men he and his expeditionary force had driven out of this very town after their suicidal commander had blown up the French fort with him in it.

They reminded him strongly of the snobbish bonzes he had encountered in his boyhood in the temples of Yangzhou.

All the snobbish, insular doyennes of Denver would flock to her door once they realized just what Cecily was capable of.

Cantanzaro told Decraehe, a slim, snobbish man who affected an unnecessary monocle and would not have been caught dead entertaining a commoner outside election time.

We were very insistent on originality -- to steal or be derivative was a sin -- and this may have been a bit snobbish on our parts but we had a distaste for prop comics or anyone who went up there with something other than original thoughts and original words.

The Pures were too closely knit, too snobbish ever to share their inner secrets and shames with those they thought of as a lower species.