Lexicographical Neighbors of Snubbish
Literary usage of Snubbish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed (1919)
"Little eyes, a snubbish nose, wide, generous mouth, and heavy chin; cleanshaven
now, but already beginning to bristle with the well- known beard of his past ..."
2. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1829)
"He had high cheek bones, grey eyes sunk in the head, a short snubbish nose, a
round chin, hair and whiskers of a light sandy colour, and a complexion of ..."
3. Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed (1919)
"A short, stocky figure, with a big head set down in his shoulders, bald and bulging.
Little eyes, a snubbish nose, wide, generous mouth, and heavy chin; ..."
4. The United States Magazine and Democratic Review (1847)
"... ridiculed by their snubbish writers. The social career of Colonel Thorn has
been so frequently the theme of remark, that we may be excused following for ..."
5. Journal of Social Science: Containing the Proceedings of the American by American Social Science Association, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Frederick Stanley Root (1890)
"... sad and sour and snubbish, But saints zoological must cant their stuff.
As vessels cant their ballast-rattling rubbish?" These lines could be admirably ..."
6. The United States Democratic Review by Conrad Swackhamer (1847)
"They have chosen to erect their own standard of Americanism, and all who overtop
it are sure of being ridiculed by their snubbish writers. ..."
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