| 单词 | inverted snobbery |
| 释义 | > as lemmasinverted snobbery inverted 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. ΚΠ 1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters 176 His book..was a capital instance of the Penny Messalina school of literature; and there arose from it..a rank atmosphere of..sickening, inverted snobbery. 1937 L. Bromfield Rains Came i. xxxviii. 159 It was that eternal, inverted snobbery of his, that hatred of anyone born with the things he had never achieved. 1962 Daily Rev. (Hayward, Calif.) 10 Sept. 12/5 I have no inverted snobbery against men of inherited wealth. 1971 Lancet 23 Apr. 918/2 The curious inverted snobbery of the use of ‘Mr.’ by surgeons..is well worth the attention of a sociologist. 2009 S. Reynolds Bring Noise 298 [A] vein of inverted snobbery that runs through British rock culture, one symptom of which is an abiding discomfort with the notion of ‘art rock’ itself. < as lemmas |
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