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单词 snobbery
释义
snobbery
noun[U]
disapproving
uk
/ˈsnɒb.ər.i/us
/ˈsnɑː.bɚ.i/
(alsosnobbishness)
behaviourandopinionsthat aretypicalof asnob:
势利，虚荣
Sheaccusedme of snobbery because Isentmysonsto aprivateschool.她指责我虚荣，因为我送儿子上了一所私立学校。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Class & class-consciousness in general
  • anti-bourgeois
  • anti-snob
  • arriviste
  • bougie
  • gentrification
  • gentrify
  • go/come down in the worldidiom
  • go/come up in the worldidiom
  • pedigreed
  • petit bourgeois
  • petty bourgeois
  • pleb
  • social mobility
  • the bottom of the heapidiom
  • the gentry
  • the petite bourgeoisie
  • the upper crust
  • trailer trash
  • underclass
  • upper class
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(Definition ofsnobberyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsnobbery

snobbery
Nor didsnobberylead the old landed families to associate themselves with the values of the fashionable aristocracy.
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Thinking critically about genius does not mean we shall inevitably succumb to culturalsnobberyor hero worship.
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They may have been victims ofsnobberydirected generally against professionals and men of business.
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There is little real dispute over the value of these all-purpose talents, even among those who reject the classsnobberyof the mainline eugenicists.
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This sort of invertedsnobberywould refuse ref lection, but would not escape the dialogue.
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Your missionaries preach brotherhood but you and they practise socialsnobberyand discrimination.
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I see no value in such "discrimination": if we are to have muck, let's have outright, sheer muck, rather than muck that pretends, bysnobberyor irony, to be superior.
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Living in an imaginary world, they presented a pathetic spectacle, cut off bysnobberyfrom those whom they should have been leading and by race from mainstream white society.
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Council education departments are often the worst offenders for this languagesnobbery.
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One cannot help wondering if the distance between the jazz and classical traditions has tended to be exaggerated, perhaps out ofsnobberyor (sometimes reverse) racism.
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Carmer the enlightened bureaucrat was not above usingsnobberyto defend publicity and elite autonomy.
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Was artisan culture as devoid ofsnobberyas is suggested here?
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It was, in part, exhilarating and liberating, blasting the traditional pieties surrounding the theatre in this country - the suffocating, elitistsnobbery, middle-class prejudices, and poisonous atmosphere of self-congratulation.
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For a while it was but a painless form ofsnobbery—for those who indulged in it, if not for those who were its targets.
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Let us cut out thesnobbery, the frills, and decide what is the right level of expenditure.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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