snobbery
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She describes getting into the prestigious university as "a massive deal" but she found the atmosphere strange and experienced some snobbery about her working class accent.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Film snobbery notwithstanding, however, much of that will be accomplished via non-Imax 70mm screenings, which come in a near-Homeric list of types.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
This I-95 rivalry is intense, full of civic snobbery and loutish fandom; in other words, perfect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
The 1990s cocktail revival introduced a layer of snobbery to speakeasy-style bars, long after any subterfuge was necessary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
Added to European snobbery was white American scepticism about Dvorak's public statements.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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The crisis has, Amed points out, broken down outmoded fashion snobberies toward digital.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 13, 2020
Many previous music-critic snobberies have eroded through the consumerist pluralism of the internet, a broader politics of cultural representation, and a renewed investment in pleasure as the literal least a listener can ask for.
From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2019
Nonetheless, learning about my boyhood idol’s snobberies and insecurities has left me slightly downcast.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 1, 2017
“Ms. Hollingworth’s snobberies are very tiring, her cozy relations with British embassies irritating,” the English journalist Robert Fisk wrote, reviewing her 1990 memoir, “Front Line.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2017
How I used to revel in such bitter little snobberies myself; how eay they were, once.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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