Example sentences for: snobbery

How can you use “snobbery” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • For much of the piece Maslin seemed to criticize the way films like A Handful of Dust distorted the novels they set out to adapt, the way they reeked of snobbery and voyeurism, the way they substituted rarified Ralph Lauren décors for content.

  • For a man so critical of Evans-Pierce's bizarre stories about deep, dark Arkansas, how could he fall into the same fool's trap of "snobbery or sloth" he accuses Evans-Pierce of in his writing?

  • What's ordinarily so unappealing about "fashion" is its combination of snobbery, high cost, and humorlessness.

  • To this mix, Culturebox would like to add a candidate of its own: Chip McGrath, the editor of the New York Times Book Review . A former staff member at The New Yorker , McGrath was passed over when Robert Gottlieb acceded to power, but over the past few years he has done a bang-up job at the Book Review , giving it all of the heft of the New York Review of Books with none of the intellectual snobbery.

  • And a funny critique of DSM-IV, the standard manual of mental disorders: The manual classifies everything--from bad handwriting to snobbery to clumsiness--as a mental illness.


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