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snobbism

American  
[snahb-iz-uhm] / ˈsnɑbˌɪz əm /

noun

  1. a less common variant of snobbery.


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.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

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