How to Use snobbish in a Sentence

snobbish

adjective
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  • Each believes their food is the best in the world, and both are a little snobbish about other cuisines.
    — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Mary starts rather quite strong, but rather snobbish and spoiled and difficult and all that sort of thing.
    — Natalie Jamieson, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 May 2022
  • This gives the lie to that canard about which fork to use being a snobbish etiquette test.
    — Judith Martin, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2019
  • In decades past, buildings like 740 Park could afford to be snobbish.
    — Curbed, 8 Nov. 2022
  • One encounter, with a local hunk (Jonathan Groff) mocked for his tourist’s view of New York, did strike me as snobbish.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Cats may be revered for being snobbish, but that’s not always the case, as is on full display in this video.
    — Ashley Hoffman, Time, 5 Dec. 2019
  • So fashion right now is democratic in reach and yet snobbish in taste.
    — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 July 2022
  • But his snobbish parents took against the working class girl, who was a shop assistant to boot.
    — Caroline Moorehead, WSJ, 14 July 2017
  • In contrast, Stacey’s clan think the Billericay crowd are snobbish.
    — The Economist, 26 Dec. 2019
  • The people who defend gun rights believe that snobbish elites look down on their morals and want to destroy their culture.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 20 Feb. 2018
  • It would not be considered like a snobbish, elitist, thing.
    — Jason Sheeler, PEOPLE.com, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Then, too, Petrie greeted his new surroundings without a trace of the snobbish contempt shown by Vyse.
    — Jimmy Maher, Ars Technica, 15 Mar. 2020
  • Evans watched the famously snobbish princess approach him in the receiving line.
    — Lesley M.m. Blume, Town & Country, 2 Nov. 2019
  • Nothing about this show is digestible: The characters are obscenely wealthy and snobbish, and the premise itself is far-fetched.
    — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 27 Sep. 2019
  • For all its tongue-clucking over Greer’s snobbery, though, the narrative itself has a strangely snobbish cast.
    — Amy Gentry, chicagotribune.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Was this tamale standoff an example of a snobbish white lady trying to tell Mexicans how to cook their own food?
    — Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2022
  • However, she gets thrown off her game by the presence of the family's extremely hot prince and his snobbish mother.
    — Ineye Komonibo, Marie Claire, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Portland has no shortage of world-class beer, but Chuckanut’s arrival has even the most snobbish local beer fans excited.
    — oregonlive, 10 Dec. 2021
  • After one night with her snobbish roommates, Ella learns that she’s been transferred to another room, to be shared with a cranky misfit named Brigit.
    — Mary Quattlebaum, Washington Post, 18 May 2022
  • Ozick depicts these Old Boys-turned-oldsters as having changed little over the decades from their callow, snobbish boyhood selves.
    — Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Kids in The Hood regularly prank the rich community’s snobbish teens, while the mayor constantly tries to get rid of the The Hood altogether.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 1 Aug. 2022
  • That means getting revenge on his snobbish cousin, August, for leaking the video and winning back Simon’s affections.
    — Elaina Patton, NBC News, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Plus, the idea of blasting rock 'n' roll throughout the staid side-street, populated mostly by snobbish tailors, appealed to their sense of rebellion.
    — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Jasmine Guy, who played the snobbish Whitley Gilbert, remembers an early script in which students called professors by their first names.
    — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2021
  • At the same time, her snobbish, insolent style makes her a strong irritant for blue-collar workers, helping mobilize Putin’s base.
    — Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2017
  • The word authentic has become a completely ridiculous, snobbish term.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 8 June 2018
  • Abstruse disputation is hardly unknown but argument has reached a new level with threats of lawsuits and charges of snobbish bigotry and snowflake naïveté.
    — Ethan Bronner, Bloomberg.com, 29 Sep. 2020
  • This kicks off an explosion of song and dance that allows both leads to let loose, demonstrate the wild energy of Indian choreography, and show up their snobbish oppressors.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Their angst was easily dismissed by their populist foes as the self-interested whine of a snobbish establishment.
    — Jonathan Freedland, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2020
  • That distance looms larger than ever when even the Golden Globes voters – not exactly the most snobbish bunch around -- dismiss broadcast TV as not worth noticing, let alone honoring.
    — oregonlive, 31 Dec. 2019

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