snob

nounperson who looks down on others

Synonyms for snob

noun person who looks down on others

Word Origin & History

1781, "a shoemaker, a shoemaker's apprentice," of unknown origin. It came to be used in Cambridge University slang c.1796, often contemptuously, for "townsman, local merchant," and passed then into literary use, where by 1831 it was being used for "person of the ordinary or lower classes." Meaning "person who vulgarly apes his social superiors" is by 1843, popularized 1848 by William Thackeray's "Book of Snobs." The meaning later broadened to include those who insist on their gentility, in addition to those who merely aspire to it, and by 1911 the word had its main modern sense of "one who despises those considered inferior in rank, attainment, or taste."

Example Sentences for snob

That counts me a snob in my mental attitude toward the Lockwoods.

He who bullies those who are not in a position to resist may be a snob, but cannot be a gentleman.

We are left with the uneasy impression that William is a snob.

People will say he was a vulgar parvenu, a sycophant, a snob—heaven knows what.

You'll never be a snob, Beth, no matter how much money you have.

"I am a snob," she resumed, expecting him to contradict her.

She was afraid that she had been a bit of a snob, a trifle caddish.

The study of Pip is meant to indicate that with all his virtues Pip was a snob.

If he does it consciously, the chances are he is a snob for doing it.

And apparently the girl was far from being a prude or a snob.

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Synonyms for snob

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Synonyms for snob

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