Example sentences for: snobbish

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

  • It said there is anxiety in Jordan at the prospect of the king being succeeded by his brother, Crown Prince Hassan, who is regarded as "snobbish and loquacious by his critics, who say his sentences are often so long that by the time they end, the listener or reader has forgotten how they started."

  • To call the Scots tongue Doric (meaning broad or rustic) is to perpetuate the notion that it is the speech of uneducated country folk, an idea still endorsed by snobbish anglophiles in Scotland.

  • According to Manuel Peña the word jaitón, meaning “snobbish,” evolved from the words “high tone” when one was discussing music.

  • These two are intended as a foil for the nonjudgmental main characters--the sort of fake liberals who proclaim tolerance out of one side of their mouths and issue snobbish put-downs of gays, blacks, and Brooklyn out of the other.

  • On a brighter but no less arbitrary note, childless aristocrats picked genial Edward as their heir; he changed his name and became a snobbish landowner, kind to his less glamorous siblings but also condescending.


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