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ˈsnobbism
Also snobism [cf. snobisme.]
[f. snob n.1 3.]
The characteristic qualities of a snob; snobbishness. Also, an instance or manifestation of this.
1845Punch June 254/1 We never saw any living creature in such a high state of snobbism. 1856Geo. Eliot Ess. (1884) 267 As long as snobbism runs in the blood, why should it not run in our speech? 1869Daily News 2 Sept., All that has been said latterly about the snobbism of our countrymen..on their travels. 1884Contemp. Rev. Oct. 545 Is there any society..where such a piece of snobbism could be represented as possible. 1895[see egomania]. 1923J. M. Murry Pencillings 36 Dickens is safe, so safe indeed that within the next twelve months he may become a snobism in his turn... Although I have floundered into most of the artistic snobisms of my time..I have never deserted Mr. Micawber. 1932P. Balfour Society Racket i. 48 ‘Belle's Letters’, in which the great social figures..liked to be mentioned and to have their dresses described, is nauseous in its unabashed and luscious snobism. 1940H. G. Wells All aboard for Ararat iii. 84 Some mysterious process of snobism. 1966Punch 20 July 124/2 It deflates a lot of irritating snobbisms and pomposities. 1972Science 12 May 620/1 A union representative must cope with the inevitable snobbism of the better educated engineer or chemist. |