(1) Labour may promote more women, but more than one cabinet minister needed his women staff protected from slobbery kisses and aggressive fumblings.
(2) And then he gave me this horrible slobbery kiss with his tongue and literally I had never been kissed by anyone.
Snobbery
Definition:
(n.) The quality of being snobbish; snobbishness.
Example Sentences:
(1) The same intrepid, almost naive, fascination with a world shrouded in the icy fog of snobbery, deference, and class-consciousness animated Sampson.
(2) This snobbery towards students from other universities is unacceptable.
(3) Despite the success of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, there was a whiff of snobbery.
(4) How apt that terms of bigotry should be riddled with class snobbery.
(5) A frilly thriller Washing-line snobbery: why can’t I hang my knickers out to dry?
(6) There is much about her that might provoke middle-class snobbery: her typically estuary disregard for grammar, for instance, all double negatives and misused verbs.
(7) My novel The Upstart is based on my experiences of the snobbery of worrying about saying the wrong thing.
(8) There is also some degree of de haut en bas snobbery from the mainly middle-class campaigners against the culturally working-class Evans.
(9) There is undeniably a touch of class snobbery in reactions to Cole's tattoo – a sense of disapproval of a certain aesthetic style or her decision to cover her whole backside.
(10) That said, comedy remains Nu Snobbery's most influential vehicle - and in 2003, its decisive arrival was proved by the most successful British comedy programme since The Office.
(11) In the early postwar decades there had been a definite if unspoken division, based on snobbery, between fine artists and industrial designers.
(12) Naturally enough, the New Snobbery is not restricted to the more frivolous end of our pop culture.
(13) A huge proportion of the humour in Fawlty Towers comes from Basil's snobbery or his mortal terror of Sybil.
(14) Other hazards of working on television which Richardson faced were the snobbery which still regarded TV as the poor relation of theatre and cinema.
(15) In last year's Christmas bestseller, Is It Me or Is Everything Shit?, Steve Lowe and Alan McArthur crystallised this sea change as "Nu snobbery": the belief that "the poor are a right laugh.
(16) Stephen Spender, in a 1982 piece for the New York Review of Books, a piece that was revealing only of Spender's snobbery, said that this was why Zweig was so popular at the time, because this was the kind of stuff adolescent girls got their kicks from.
(17) There are some who would say this is just snobbery.
(18) In 2010, passion and intelligence are too often equated with snobbery and elitism, often by people who don't have hugely cared-for record collections – which possibly includes shadow culture secretaries, former co-authors of Tory manifestos and chief executives in charge of media conglomerates.
(19) If social class snobbery prevents rugby union recognising good practice in rugby league, it should at least change the rules so that opponents stand off tackled players and allow their team mates to get the ball moving again unimpeded.
(20) Her decision to cross into Afghanistan without official permission amazed and appalled many foreign correspondents because she was not exactly familiar with the terrain; a leader in one newspaper referred to her 'heroic idiocy' (for her part, Ridley thought that this was just the snobbery of the foreign-correspondent hierarchy).