snobbishly
adverb
disapprovinguk/ˈsnɒb.ɪʃ.li/us/ˈsnɑː.bɪʃ.li/(alsosnobbily,uk/ˈsnɒb.ɪ.li/us/ˈsnɒb.ɪ.li/)in asnobbishway:
She was snobbishlythrilledtolearnthat her daughter'sfiancécame from anaristocraticfamily.
See
snobbish
- What went on withintheirsnobbishlytightlittleclique?
- I couldn'tinviteher toourhouse, becauseMothersnobbishlyrefusedtoreceiveher.
- Variousliterarytypeshave (rathersnobbishly)wonderedif thefootballerreadsbooks, either to himself or hischildren.
- "Do we reallywantaprimeministernamedKevin?" theyasksnobbily.
- People whobuythatstuff, so we'vereckonedsnobbily, willbuyanything.
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