How to Use snobbery in a Sentence

snobbery

noun
  • But the band themselves were not always spared class snobbery.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Nov. 2024
  • What faced him on the other side was snobbery and disrespect.
    — The Economist, 3 May 2018
  • You just won’t be burdened with as many high ticket pours, or the wine snobbery that comes along with them.
    — Krista Simmons, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 May 2021
  • Casey has an affable lack of artistic snobbery about his work.
    — Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Indeed there was a certain amount of snobbery about the idea of using shop-brand goods.
    — Kate Hardcastle, Forbes, 30 June 2022
  • The theatre was not based in snobbery, and neither is the show’s culture.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2020
  • And yeah, a lot comes with that —there’s record store snobbery, and there’s audiophile (elitism).
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 17 July 2022
  • Jane Austen, the great artist of spiteful snobbery and petty vengeance, knew this well.
    — Charlie Tyson, The Atlantic, 13 May 2021
  • Yet even at her most severe, Eliot never stooped to simple snobbery.
    — Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
  • But actually, in the world of snobbery and class, that isn’t real.
    — Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 29 Oct. 2024
  • There’s a certain snobbery that some people have more or better knowledge.
    — Matt Jaffe, Los Angeles Magazine, 1 May 2018
  • Fridays bring themed classes, courses high on intel and low on snobbery.
    — Chris Malloy, Bon Appetit Magazine, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Wrapped in her summer furs and her beautiful snobbery, Ma looks out at the world with little love.
    — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2020
  • Decades of writers, actors and others put their artistic snobbery in storage and came west to get rich off the movies.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The cynicism and the snobbery of the British up against this heart and this warmth of this kind of character.
    — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 19 May 2021
  • Or maybe a bit of snobbery has set in after all these years of the tills-ringing Premier League.
    — Daniel Taylor, The Athletic, 28 Aug. 2024
  • The two-story house became the tiny town’s version of a ski resort, sans the steep prices and upper-crust snobbery.
    — Zak Keefer, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2026
  • The snobbery might be more widespread among the spandex-wearing weekend-warrior set.
    — Fortune, 20 July 2019
  • In markets where spam is still looked-down upon, the need for affordable food trumps snobbery for many consumers in hard times.
    — James Griffiths, CNN, 26 Dec. 2020
  • How has that coffee snobbery helped you out in developing this new range of roasts and coffee products?
    — Michelle Santiago Cortés, refinery29.com, 23 Sep. 2020
  • The holiday cheese ball is a tradition too tasty to fall victim to petty snobbery.
    — WSJ, 24 Jan. 2020
  • On a roll, the next stop was Lupo for happy hour—a bright Italian joint that felt swanky without snobbery.
    — Lauren Breedlove, Travel + Leisure, 12 Dec. 2025
  • One of my best friends, who worked in radio, came up with the idea of a funny self-deprecating segment about me and my weird snobbery.
    — Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, 7 May 2018
  • Marie Antoinette would have been proud of such gratuitous snobbery, but most of us in the media don’t mind eating a little cake.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2022
  • But that doesn’t mean the town is defined by snobbery, says Denise Mosher, who’s lived here for nearly 30 years.
    — Susan Moeller, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
  • And according to The Daily Mail there’s some snobbery involved.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 26 Jan. 2026
  • To buy its products was to proclaim oneself an It Girl without acquiring any of the stigma of snobbery.
    — Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Yet the distrust between the factions was made toxic by class snobbery and hatred, since the Woodvilles were a mere gentry family.
    — Andrew Roberts, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2018
  • The answer may come down to a resilient compound, in élite culture, of Platonic idealism and run-of-the-mill snobbery.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2018
  • The script by Kevin Wade throws up hurdles of sexism and class snobbery, never sugarcoating how Tess’s male co-workers treat her like a blow-up doll.
    — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026

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