snobbism
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Mr. Holmes does not quote Auden’s snide remark, but in some ways his book addresses the modern snobbism that shadows Tennyson.
He added in his memoir that he “still harbored the old-fashioned stage actor’s snobbism toward moviemaking.”
From Washington Post
Even within the plant, there was some snobbism.
From Literature
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Is this some kind of snobbism where something that many people like cannot possibly be of any value?
From New York Times
I love watching movies and I have no snobbism about movies whatsoever.
From New York Times
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