释义 |
snobberysnob‧be‧ry /ˈsnɒbəri $ ˈsnɑː-/ noun [uncountable] - Another Bloomsbury hallmark was witty conversation and upper-class snobbery, which has made Bloomsbury reviled in some circles.
- One supposes that sort of snobbery is behind us.
- Polls suggest that cultural snobbery is largely confined to intellectuals.
- That seemed to me to be daft, bordering on snobbery.
- There was snobbery, and attitudes formed by social and educational background.
- This thought now struck him as too simple and certainly unpleasant in its snobbery, and he tore it up.
- Was this snobbery or some more mundane consideration of copyright?
- You mean we could have just sat on the couch and watched reruns to get the same level of cultural snobbery?
► intellectual snobbery intellectual snobbery behaviour or attitudes which show that you think you are better than other people, because you belong to a higher social class or know much more than they do – used to show disapproval: intellectual snobbery → inverted snobbery |