What's the difference between snob and sob?

Snob


Definition:

  • (n.) A vulgar person who affects to be better, richer, or more fashionable, than he really is; a vulgar upstart; one who apes his superiors.
  • (n.) A townsman.
  • (n.) A journeyman shoemaker.
  • (n.) A workman who accepts lower than the usual wages, or who refuses to strike when his fellows do; a rat; a knobstick.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Iain Duncan Smith and Chris Grayling breached all those, absurdly calling objectors 'job snobs'.
  • (2) This will be proof for many that Nick Clegg is indeed a latte-sipping, windsurfing, arugula [rocket]-munching Euro-snob.
  • (3) While Liz won new admirers with her stiff upper cleavage and bloke-dismissal skills, super-snob Sally plumbed new depths of irritation.
  • (4) But Debo was never a serious snob, considering class an irritant: "The biggest pest that has ever been invented".
  • (5) In Manhattan, she is cast as a pretentious, irksome snob of a journalist.
  • (6) Can't believe I study with such sexist, homophobic, snobs.
  • (7) At the time, to me, it was the sort of thing snobs did.
  • (8) For this is one of the defining characteristics of the true British food snob: a conviction that our high street food culture is vulgar and awful , that it's a slurry pit of overwhelming choice underpinned by little in the way of values or conviction or tradition, which only encourages gastronomic deviants like the Christopher Pooles of this world.
  • (9) A detour into the bank of Blair Bishop has a common touch seldom associated with ex-Footlights comics: it's a brand of trad standup that pleases a mass audience, but it can alienate comedy snobs.
  • (10) How on earth do we end up with a challenge to this awful government's attack on the welfare system ( Back to work schemes broke law, court rules , 13 February) coming from a "self-described reticent and shy woman" sent to work for free at Poundland ( 'I'm no job snob.
  • (11) Perry is too self-aware not to realise that, for all his protestations about representing the middle ground, he’s still a bit of an art snob at heart.
  • (12) It sold nearly 3m copies and established Franzen as one of the leading literary voices of his generation, but, thanks to his perceived snub to Winfrey, it also established his reputation as, variously, an "ego-blinded snob" (Boston Globe), a "pompous prick" (Newsweek) and a "spoiled, whiny little brat" (Chicago Tribune).
  • (13) Hal Cruttenden: Tough Luvvie, On tour There’s a particular, peculiar tradition of British comedy that Hal Cruttenden neatly fits into: the camp comic who’s also a snob.
  • (14) His father wasn't a snob in these matters, nor in the larger matter of his son's desire to be an actor.
  • (15) Although I laugh in the face of "kitchen suppers", I must admit that I'm quite the snob when it comes to dinner.
  • (16) In an article in the Russian publication Snob, three psychiatrists criticised the sentence and the prosecution's argument that Kosenko has a dangerous form of schizophrenia.
  • (17) He did pop music but you could be a fan of Prince and not have to give up any of your alternative scene, you could still be a snob.
  • (18) Not so long ago, I believed that anything that helped broaden interest in current art was to be welcomed; that only an elitist snob would want art to be confined to a worthy group of aficionados.
  • (19) Challenging those who see the Conservatives as the party of snobs and the rich, he will say: "There is nothing complicated about me.
  • (20) Twitter trolls urge boycott of Star Wars over black character Read more Another way to hate Star Wars over diversity is what might be called “the snob way”.

Sob


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To soak.
  • (v. i.) To sigh with a sudden heaving of the breast, or with a kind of convulsive motion; to sigh with tears, and with a convulsive drawing in of the breath.
  • (n.) The act of sobbing; a convulsive sigh, or inspiration of the breath, as in sorrow.
  • (n.) Any sorrowful cry or sound.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "After I saw you there, I just went out and sobbed.
  • (2) The results suggest that (i) the SOS response of E. coli and the SOB response of B. subtilis are strikingly similar from both a phenotypic and a regulatory standpoint and that RecA and LexA protein analogs exist in B. subtilis, (ii) the Recbs protein is capable of regulating its own production, and (iii) SOS-inducing (RecA-activating) signals are generated in B. subtilis following either DNA damage or the development of physiological competence.
  • (3) Effects of amygdaloid lesions on the switch-off behavior (SOB) and behavioral changes induced by a delayed reinforcement (DR) for SOB were investigated in 12 cats.
  • (4) Acts of kindness move Langham to tears, and before long another memory has him sobbing.
  • (5) He went from minstrel show to blackface, from vaudeville to Broadway before he hit a fabulous prosperity as the most sentimental of all sentimental singers, a poor Russian cantor's son daubed with burnt cork and down on one knee sobbing for the "mammy" he had never known in a south that nobody ever knew.
  • (6) No one photographs the child with learning difficulty, sobbing as the teaching assistant they worked with for the past three years is booted out.
  • (7) He is very kind, honest, funny,” she said on Monday, sobbing as she remembered her only child, who had been flying home from Malaysia, where he was studying.
  • (8) In a televised meeting that has gone viral, the German chancellor rubs the shoulder of a sobbing teenager after telling her she was one of “thousands and thousands” of refugees that her country was unable to help.
  • (9) Since then, the cursing and sobbing have been plentiful.
  • (10) "This depressing morning has now got me questioning my pitiful existence," sobs James Dodge.
  • (11) She is generally a happy person, but in the last few weeks she has been showing signs of deep anxiety, phoning me sobbing with fear.
  • (12) The 56-year-old held a tissue to her face and sobbed during a five-minute hearing at City of Westminster magistrates court in central London.
  • (13) Liam Stacey , 21, of Pontypridd, south Wales, sobbed as he was taken away after the failed appeal hearing at Swansea crown court.
  • (14) The paper's "special investigation", headlined "No ID, no checks … and vouchers for sob stories: the truth behind those shock food bank claims", suggested that claims about the scale of Britain's welfare problems had been exaggerated.
  • (15) I sobbed for the last 30 pages but not, perhaps, for the reason you'd expect.
  • (16) Naturally I confronted them about it, halting their child's progress with a foot on the front bumper, loudly berating their crass behaviour while impressed pedestrians looked on, cheering and punching the air and chanting my name until Audi boy's parents fell to the ground, clutching pitifully at my trouser-legs and sobbing for forgiveness.
  • (17) 4.59pm BST "My fiancee have decided to get married in whichever country wins the World Cup so this game really has me torn," sobs Nate Philipps.
  • (18) She was followed by several women who must have been relatives or neighbours living nearby; the cries and sobs were so loud they could be heard clearly over the shooting and chanting from the street.
  • (19) "It's just so depressing this whole situation," sobs Angus Chisholm.
  • (20) One hand held the corner of the tomb and he sobbed uncontrollably into the other.

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