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Definition of inverted snobbery in English: inverted snobberynoun mass nounBritish derogatory The attitude of seeming to despise anything associated with wealth or social status, while at the same time elevating those things associated with lack of wealth and social position. Example sentencesExamples - There is an inverted snobbery about much British comedy which dictates that working-class comics are somehow more authentic and that their observations are more truthful than those of middle-class comics.
- There is ten times as much inverted snobbery around as the ‘normal’ sort.
- Such inverted snobbery has turned him into that rare creature, a critically adored novelist who actually sells books.
- The word ‘snob’ has been heard, which is not far short of a hanging offence in modern Britain, a land that makes such a virtue of inverted snobbery.
- In these days of inverted snobbery, better to be a vandal.
- Unfortunately it won't receive a fraction of the attention got by each dollop of Carey's inverted snobbery.
- I have a kind of inverted snobbery when it comes to what is still ridiculously called the ‘official’ festival.
- From the sink estate to the shooting estate, Kane blasts snobbery and inverted snobbery with equal vigour.
- Then, when I was in a band, there was inverted snobbery, because the British still want their rock heroes to be working-class.
- These days, we're reeking with inverted snobbery, and in my ‘humble’ opinion there's nothing worse than inverted snobbery, especially when it involves conservation.
- From snobbery to inverted snobbery, fox-hunting has become a useful backdrop for those with a different agenda.
- Clever ad campaigns have helped, and now there is a strong streak of inverted snobbery to Skoda ownership.
- Yet today the subject has been so dramatically democratised that there is even an inverted snobbery, eg a ‘black sheep’ website offering a shortcut to people who want to trace their descent from a highwayman, cattle stealer or convict.
- And that's the trouble with the little people of football, with its inverted snobbery and its jealousies so prevalent and so marked on sleeves, as they try to criticise other games, usually rugby.
- To some, this indicated a fickleness, a shallowness, an inverted snobbery, an unseemly arrested development.
- We have a kind of inverted snobbery about garden plants; many gardeners look down their noses at the native species and praise the foreign exotics.
- Not that we should apply any inverted snobbery to an issue that deserves to keep it's focus and not blown off course with arguments about class and status.
- The Scottish mindset, not averse to a bit of inverted snobbery now and then, collectively ignores the game and its perceived hoity-toity primness.
- What is this if not inverted snobbery and the politics of envy?
- He expresses loathing for its stuffy, class-ridden collegiate atmosphere, and incomprehension for the very British phenomenon of inverted snobbery.
Derivatives noun British derogatory A person who appears to despise anything associated with wealth or social status, while at the same time elevating those things associated with lack of wealth and social position. a bunch of inverted snobs with a dislike of anyone posh Example sentencesExamples - Yet he never plays the inverted snob and adores Hampstead.
- The head of Gateway Community College in Tilbury says the success of the house system has proved wrong the ‘inverted snobs ‘who were against it.’
- The backlash to Miss Keppel's victory proves that we are still a bunch of inverted snobs with a dislike of anyone posher than her.
Definition of inverted snobbery in US English: inverted snobberynounɪnˈvərdəd ˈsnɑb(ə)ri British derogatory The attitude of seeming to despise anything associated with wealth or social status, while at the same time elevating those things associated with lack of wealth and social position. Example sentencesExamples - There is ten times as much inverted snobbery around as the ‘normal’ sort.
- To some, this indicated a fickleness, a shallowness, an inverted snobbery, an unseemly arrested development.
- Not that we should apply any inverted snobbery to an issue that deserves to keep it's focus and not blown off course with arguments about class and status.
- Yet today the subject has been so dramatically democratised that there is even an inverted snobbery, eg a ‘black sheep’ website offering a shortcut to people who want to trace their descent from a highwayman, cattle stealer or convict.
- There is an inverted snobbery about much British comedy which dictates that working-class comics are somehow more authentic and that their observations are more truthful than those of middle-class comics.
- From the sink estate to the shooting estate, Kane blasts snobbery and inverted snobbery with equal vigour.
- Clever ad campaigns have helped, and now there is a strong streak of inverted snobbery to Skoda ownership.
- These days, we're reeking with inverted snobbery, and in my ‘humble’ opinion there's nothing worse than inverted snobbery, especially when it involves conservation.
- He expresses loathing for its stuffy, class-ridden collegiate atmosphere, and incomprehension for the very British phenomenon of inverted snobbery.
- From snobbery to inverted snobbery, fox-hunting has become a useful backdrop for those with a different agenda.
- Then, when I was in a band, there was inverted snobbery, because the British still want their rock heroes to be working-class.
- The Scottish mindset, not averse to a bit of inverted snobbery now and then, collectively ignores the game and its perceived hoity-toity primness.
- Such inverted snobbery has turned him into that rare creature, a critically adored novelist who actually sells books.
- I have a kind of inverted snobbery when it comes to what is still ridiculously called the ‘official’ festival.
- The word ‘snob’ has been heard, which is not far short of a hanging offence in modern Britain, a land that makes such a virtue of inverted snobbery.
- Unfortunately it won't receive a fraction of the attention got by each dollop of Carey's inverted snobbery.
- And that's the trouble with the little people of football, with its inverted snobbery and its jealousies so prevalent and so marked on sleeves, as they try to criticise other games, usually rugby.
- We have a kind of inverted snobbery about garden plants; many gardeners look down their noses at the native species and praise the foreign exotics.
- What is this if not inverted snobbery and the politics of envy?
- In these days of inverted snobbery, better to be a vandal.
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