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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”.

Swob


Definition:

  • (n. & v.) See Swab.

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