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Definition of Snobberies
1. snobbery [n] - See also: snobbery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snobberies
Literary usage of Snobberies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe (1888)
"In England, Fallow had always thought of Gerald Steiner as "that Jew Steiner,"
but on this night all base snobberies had vanished. ..."
2. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings ... Annual Forum by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, Conference of Charities (U.S., Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1921)
"At first we are inclined to smile at all the little snobberies that are no less
conspicuous on the way down the scale than on the way up. ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"But Edward VIII has naught to fear on that score: like his grandfather, he has
known all its snobberies and he certainly knows all its virtues. ..."
4. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association (1921)
"At first we are inclined to smile at all the little snobberies that are no less
conspicuous on the way down the scale than on the way up. ..."
5. The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot by Chicago Commission on Race Relations (1922)
"... as in restaurants, there are petty evasions of the law, disagreeable encounters,
and small but insistent snobberies. A colored investigator reported the ..."
6. James Russell Lowell: A Biography by Horace Elisha Scudder (1901)
"... and Lowell was accused of having made a cheap exchange of his democratic
principles for aristocratic snobberies when absent from his country. ..."
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