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单词 snobbish
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Definition of snobbish in English:

snobbish

adjective ˈsnɒbɪʃˈsnɑbɪʃ
  • Relating to, characteristic of, or like a snob.

    the writer takes a rather snobbish tone
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Interest in pedigree used to be dismissed as snobbish.
    • The bad news is that I'm vain, snobbish, a bit of a gossip and am rather divorced from most of the real world.
    • May one say that this is so without sounding hopelessly snobbish?
    • What makes this class of people snobbish rather than simply pretentious is their tendency to sneer.
    • Even the most obvious and patently true observation therefore runs the risk of appearing condescending, arrogant or snobbish.
    • If this profession of my love for my own name makes me an arrogant and snobbish character, so be it.
    • His way of life may seem a bit ostentatious, but his energy and enthusiasm is infectious, and there is nothing snobbish or affected about him.
    • And, if you imagined Hollywood stars to be haughty, snobbish creatures, you are way off the mark.
    • Some parents choose schools for what critics term snobbish motives.
    • Emma is a comic figure partly because of the preposterous nature of her snobbish pretensions.
    • They look like members of a snobbish elite who relish their wealth and their sense of superiority.
    • She is their foil, the object of their farcical delusions and snobbish assumptions.
    • There is nothing snobbish or elitist about the term.
    • I am fully aware that my reaction is exclusive, snotty and downright snobbish.
    • That arrogant, lazy smile swept across his stupid snobbish face as he halted, blocking my path.
    • But when he talks about it, it's more with incomprehension than snobbish disdain.
    • Photography shouldn't be snobbish, and smiley pictures can be a great record of a happy holiday.
    • Maybe I should be grateful that they are releasing alternative cuts in any format and just ignore the films I'm too snobbish to buy.
    • It is an outrageous comment, which could only have come from someone who is more arrogant, snobbish and out of touch than the prince he is condemning.
    • He doesn't think he got it from his parents, who as far as he can tell were not snobbish at all.
    Synonyms
    elitist, snobby, superior, supercilious, exclusive
    arrogant, proud, haughty, disdainful
    patronizing, condescending
    pretentious, affected
    informal snooty, uppity, high and mighty, la-di-da, fancy-pants, stuck-up, hoity-toity, snotty
    British informal toffee-nosed
    North American informal high-hat, toplofty

Derivatives

  • snobbishly

  • adverbˈsnɒbɪʃ(ə)liˈsnɑbɪʃli
    • ‘The guy is an idiot,’ he continued snobbishly.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I was about to say, snobbishly, that it's the nonvoters (yes, a much faster-growing and more potent audience segment than voters) who were watching.
      • They answered him snobbishly that if he is able to swim a few laps under a certain amount of time, then they will give him the permission.
      • He treated her snobbishly, like she was an ugly, stupid girl.
      • They held their noses snobbishly in the air, as if breathing on a higher level.
  • snobbishness

  • nounˈsnɒbɪʃnəs
    • Beside Percy stood a younger boy, with darker hair and a pouting face and the man who had to be Percy's father, with a forbidding demeanour and more pride and snobbishness than Percy had ever shown.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • If anything, I'd presume there may well be a snobbishness about his work amongst academics, precisely because it was so popular.
      • And, of course, one of the other hallmarks of the New Labour worldview is a paternalist snobbishness, a detachment from the working class that will come back to haunt Britain.
      • It's a personal opinion, a reaction to literary arrogance and snobbishness.
      • Moreover, these workers sensed both a profound snobbishness and a dishonesty among the middle-class people they encountered.

Rhymes

slobbish, yobbish
 
 

Definition of snobbish in US English:

snobbish

adjectiveˈsnäbiSHˈsnɑbɪʃ
  • Relating to, characteristic of, or like a snob.

    the writer takes a rather snobbish tone
    Example sentencesExamples
    • She is their foil, the object of their farcical delusions and snobbish assumptions.
    • Maybe I should be grateful that they are releasing alternative cuts in any format and just ignore the films I'm too snobbish to buy.
    • They look like members of a snobbish elite who relish their wealth and their sense of superiority.
    • Some parents choose schools for what critics term snobbish motives.
    • What makes this class of people snobbish rather than simply pretentious is their tendency to sneer.
    • And, if you imagined Hollywood stars to be haughty, snobbish creatures, you are way off the mark.
    • I am fully aware that my reaction is exclusive, snotty and downright snobbish.
    • He doesn't think he got it from his parents, who as far as he can tell were not snobbish at all.
    • Interest in pedigree used to be dismissed as snobbish.
    • Even the most obvious and patently true observation therefore runs the risk of appearing condescending, arrogant or snobbish.
    • His way of life may seem a bit ostentatious, but his energy and enthusiasm is infectious, and there is nothing snobbish or affected about him.
    • Emma is a comic figure partly because of the preposterous nature of her snobbish pretensions.
    • Photography shouldn't be snobbish, and smiley pictures can be a great record of a happy holiday.
    • May one say that this is so without sounding hopelessly snobbish?
    • The bad news is that I'm vain, snobbish, a bit of a gossip and am rather divorced from most of the real world.
    • It is an outrageous comment, which could only have come from someone who is more arrogant, snobbish and out of touch than the prince he is condemning.
    • If this profession of my love for my own name makes me an arrogant and snobbish character, so be it.
    • There is nothing snobbish or elitist about the term.
    • But when he talks about it, it's more with incomprehension than snobbish disdain.
    • That arrogant, lazy smile swept across his stupid snobbish face as he halted, blocking my path.
    Synonyms
    elitist, snobby, superior, supercilious, exclusive
 
 
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