snob

Example Sentences

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He was derided as a snob when he suggested, in a few statements over the years, that he had to dumb down his work for uncultured audiences.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 29, 2025

"Amanda's an awful woman, of course," he said, "a backstabbing snob who treats her children as accessories and turns every encounter with her 'mum chums' at the school gates into a blood sport."

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2025

One of Leonard’s sins turns out to be that he’s a snob who mocks Malcolm and Diane as “Mr. and Mrs. Ken Burns of Canada.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2024

“Although her own ideas came from high European culture, Vera was never a snob and encouraged her students to express ideas that came from the stuff of their own lives.”

From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2024

They tease me for being a food snob, an easy misunderstanding to play along with, but I'm not that picky about what I eat.

From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour