snob
Example Sentences
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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
"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
The moral of every high school movie is basically the same: don’t judge a person by her appearance, and don’t be a stuck-up snob or something terrible might happen to you.
From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2024
Kaz had branded her a snob for it, but she didn’t much care what Kaz Brekker had to say about her tastes.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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