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.

  • Hosenball's tone of unsubstantiated snobbery toward my state, though attacking a figure I hold in humorous contempt, is itself the "journalism of fools."

  • 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.

  • As another example, the indigenous people of the Arctic are, as far as I know, still commonly referred to in the United States as Eskimos; but for some time now the PC term in Canada has been Inuit, a term which affords great scope for PC snobbery, as it can be fairly complicated; the people are Inuit; the language is Inuitituk; and an individual is an Inuk.

  • A self-identified member of the "black elite" justifies the group's snobbery and separatism.


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