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snob

[snob] / snɒb /
NOUN
person who looks down on others
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As Margo, the formidable social-climbing snob with a cut-glass voice but a soft interior, Keith ensured her place in the nation's hearts.

From BBC Jun. 29, 2026

“If somebody gave me Florsheims as a gift, I would never be a snob about it,” the staffer told me.

From Slate Jun. 5, 2026

My 24-year-old son, who’s kind of a food snob, is like, “There’s a hundred places that are better and cheaper within five minutes of there in the San Gabriel Valley.”

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 27, 2026

Woolf was a snob, but she was hardly unique in her condescension.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 7, 2025

Corporal Snark was an intellectual snob who felt he was twenty years ahead of his time and did not enjoy cooking down to the masses.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller




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