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snobbishsnob‧bish /ˈsnɒbɪʃ $ ˈsnɑː-/ (also snob‧by /ˈsnɒbi $ ˈsnɑː-/) adjective   - 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.
- 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.
someone who thinks they are better than people from a lower social class► snobbish someone who is snobbish thinks that they are better than people from a lower social class: · Snobbish home-owners are protesting about a refugee family moving into their street.· Aunt Harriet was very rich and very snobbish. ► snob someone who thinks that they are better than people from a lower social class, and does not want to talk to them or be friends with them: · My mother was such a snob she wouldn't let me play with the local children.· They're just a bunch of snobs - you wouldn't want to be friends with them anyway. ► stuck-up informal proud and unfriendly because you think you are better and more important than other people: · Tanya is so stuck-up. She won't go out with anyone who went to a state college.· the spoiled, stuck-up daughter of a millionaire someone who thinks they are better than other people► snob someone who thinks that they are better than people from a lower social class: · Since going to university he'd become a snob, embarrassed by his family.· I don't want to sound like a snob, but I found the decor vulgar. ► snobbish someone who is snobbish thinks that they are better than people from a lower class, so that they will not be friendly with them or do the things they do: · Some people find her snobbish, but she's really just shy.· his snobbish attitude to soap operas on TVsnobbish about: · She's very snobbish about people who live in the suburbs. ► stuck-up informal someone who is stuck-up thinks that they are better than other people, and behaves in a proud, unfriendly way: · The children who go to that school are a bit stuck-up.· a pompous, stuck-up little man ► pompous someone who is pompous tries to sound important, especially by using very long or formal words: · She found him pompous and annoying.· The headteacher gave a pompous speech about 'the values of learning'. ► self-important thinking you are much more important than you really are: · As a waiter, he had grown to despise self-important customers.· He was one of those self-important little officials who made everyone call him "Sir". ► haughty someone who is haughty behaves in a proud and very unfriendly way, as if they think other people are completely unimportant: · People thought of him as being haughty and difficult to talk to.· Jessica turned away with a haughty look on her face. ► snotty informal rude and unfriendly because you think you are better than other people: · The hotel receptionist was a bit snotty to me this morning.· a bunch of snotty rich kids behaving in a way that shows you think you are better than other people because you are from a higher social class or know more than they do:  Her family seems snobbish.—snobbishly adverb—snobbishness noun [uncountable] |