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Examples of snobby in a Sentence
the snobby waiter gave me a withering look when I ordered the cheapest wine on the list
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And that led us to an aesthetic that combines our sense of humor and our obtuse, snobby art rock sensibility.
—Bill Kopp, SPIN, 30 Oct. 2024
McNab first garnered attention in Addams Family Values (1993) as a snobby camper who looks down on Wednesday.
—Danny Horn, EW.com, 5 Oct. 2024
In the fourth episode of The Perfect Couple—the soapy Netflix murder mystery that takes place on the moneyed island of Nantucket—Dakota Fanning’s character, the snobby Abby Winbury, has some choice words about a revealing Missoni dress worn by Meghann Fahy’s Merritt Monaco.
—Elise Taylor, Vogue, 20 Sep. 2024
So few Millennial filmmakers display literary interest of any sort that one is inclined to look back at the Merchant-Ivory output with new respect for what seemed like snobby pretentiousness when the films were first released.
—Armond White, National Review, 4 Sep. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1846, in the meaning defined above
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“Snobby.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snobby. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.
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