snobbery

Noun

Meaning

The quality of being snobbish; snobbishness.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

snobbism snobbishness pride contempt disdain arrogance vanity conceit insolence egotism audacity affectation condescension pretension vainglory

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Antonyms

consideration integrity humility chastity modesty decency

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Hypernyms

arrogance haughtiness hauteur lordliness high-handedness

Hyponyms

exclusiveness clannishness cliquishness

Phrases with the word

aforementioned snobbery race snobbery

Examples

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery. Yves Saint-Laurent

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died. Peter Ustinov

All the people I know have been conditioned by snobbery. Louis MacNeice

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. Albert Camus

The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature. Alan Bennett

What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery. Alain de Botton

Close letter words and terms

snob snob effect snob value snobbily snobbiness snobbish