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snob

noun as in person who looks down on others

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

I started identifying as a writer and began my journey into being an amateur snob, saying things like, “I don’t eat McDonald’s — I guffaw at the idea of a person indulging in McDonald’s!”

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All four are such shallow snobs that they can’t imagine why Ivy would want to own Julia Child’s old stove when it’s, well, old.

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Daniels didn’t have the prestige TV snobs behind him either.

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I may get called a food snob on occasion, but that intended insult does not sting.

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