| 单词 | inverse snobbery |
| 释义 | > as lemmasinverse snobbery inverse snobbery n. an attitude of exaggerated contempt or dislike for wealth, achievement, high social status, refined taste, typically combined with esteem for ‘ordinary people’, popular taste or culture, etc.; behaviour associated with such an attitude; = inverted snobbery n. at inverted adj. and n. Compounds. ΚΠ 1900 Contemp. Rev. July 155 To the sins of Government House it naturally applies itself with a kind of inverse snobbery, the small scurrility of the third-rate society paper. 1951 Evening Tel. (Rocky Mount, N. Carolina) 30 Oct. 15/2 Small town folk in moderate or lean financial circumstances [are] more apt to display inverse snobbery towards affluent newcomers. 1994 Guardian 7 Oct. 11/5 The inverse snobberies of British art-pop. 2012 V. Mayhew & R. Hosie Choose Right Word (e-book ed.) In a kind of inverse snobbery, some speakers tried to pass themselves off as more working class than in fact they were. < as lemmas |
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