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snobbery

noun as in presumption

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Eliot got it from the start, but in Woolf’s case bafflement joined forces with snobbery.

The townspeople are undifferentiated, and they are solidly united in their snobbery, antisemitism and resistance to changing mores.

But if one were to remove the veil of snobbery and suspicion dividing urban and rural America, one would find a lot more Hanks and Peggys in the world than far-right trolls.

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Dunham says the rom-com genre was the first she ever loved, but developed internalized snobbery around it as she got older.

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The move follows growing frustration over the lack of rugby league knighthoods or damehoods, with a group of cross-party MPs suggesting the lack of top honours was linked to snobbery.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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