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Definition of Snubbing
1. snub [v] - See also: snub
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snubbing
Literary usage of Snubbing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Improvement of Rivers: A Treatise on the Methods Employed for Improving by Benjamin Franklin Thomas, David Alexander Watt (1913)
"CAST IRON snubbing POST WEIGHT ABOUT 3oo LBS. FIG. 166. snubbing posts should
also be provided on the guide cribs or walls set about as described for the ..."
2. Along Alaska's Great River: A Popular Account of the Travels of Alaska by Frederick Schwatka (1900)
"... snubbing" THE KAFT. ration that was not allowed to die rapidly away, by reason
of the great amount of exercise we had to go through in managing the raft ..."
3. The Crime of Caste in Our Country: Americans Enforce Equality. No Sham by Benjamin Rush Davenport (1893)
"The poor may be robbed with impunity ; the "Common People" will good-naturedly
submit to a lot of snubbing ; but it would be well for men accustomed to ..."
4. Essays on Social Subjects from the Saturday Review by Anne] [Mozley (1865)
"snubbing. WHAT is that thing which everybody remembers, which in the most grateful
... Simply by cultivating the art of snubbing, or, in favored instances, ..."
5. Cyclopaedia of Commercial and Business Anecdotes: Comprising Interesting by Richard Miller Devens (1868)
"Bankers snubbing Napoleon. THE house of Hope & Co., of Amsterdam—always remarkable
for great independence of character — effectually checkmated Napoleon in ..."
6. The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Slingsby Duncombe, Late M.P. for Finsbury by Thomas H. Duncombe (1868)
"... House and Lady Holland—Tom Moore's snubbing—Pozzo di Borgo— Lady Blessington
makes Mr. Duncombe the hero of her novel, ..."
7. The Philosophy of Change by Daniel Pomeroy Rhodes (1909)
"... is neither here nor there," only in a humorous and pungent manner defying
contradiction. For the snubbing of theory is often a side-splitting perform- ..."
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