33 examples of snobbery in sentences

He aims to give us a true picture of the society of his day, and as he finds it pervaded by intrigues and snobbery he proceeds to satirize it and point out its moral evils.

There is also none of the keen sensitiveness to minute social distinctions and to the social proprieties which mark them that is so striking a feature of the life in "democratic" England and to which we have given the name "snobbery."

A twin-brother of English "snobbery" is English "hypocrisy."

It is a poison in the blood that infects us with the deadly sins of servility and snobbery.

There was never probably a more crazy fashion, and, like most crazy fashions, it began, as the "Alexandra limp" of our youth began, in snobbery.

The social aspect of the matter was emphasized, and the satire on middle-class snobbery was cruelly effective.

Even her love of art seemed a form of snobbery.

What is the snobbery which degrades our English character but the Indo-German Sudra's reverence for his Brahmin?

Not all my father's intellectual brilliance, nor all my mother's native wit, could save them from this pathetic, vulgar, ignorant piece of snobbery.

I've never been satisfied discipline couldn't be enforced without snobbery.

She will poison you with her sneers and snobbery!"

"I detest snobbery, so do you.

"Nice-looking people," said Miss Lavinia, meditatively scrutinizing the room through her lorgnette without a trace of snobbery in her voice or attitude, yet I was aware that she was mentally drawing herself apart.

The old gods are falling about us, there is little left to raise our hearts and minds to, and amid the wreck and ruin of things only a snobbery is left to us, thank heaven, deeply graven in the English heart; the snob is now the ark that floats triumphant over the democratic wave; the faith of the old world reposes in his breast, and he shall proclaim it when the waters have subsided.

But in all there was the play of a shrewd wit, the touch of sureness, lacking snobbery, of the man who knows where he stands, and a love of entertaining others.

The necessary corrective was not wanting, for a weekly journal of high culture described my poor handiwork as "Snobbery and Snippets."

The obligation of poverty it omits, for the code arose at a time when the spiritual snobbery of the meek and lowly was not pressing the simile about the camel and the eye of the needle.

Her diffidence, her self-consciousness, her timidity, were the outward forms of an inbred snobbery.

For years Claire had found shelter from the glare of middle-class snobbery beating about her head, by shrinking into her mother's inadequate shadow as a desert bird shrinks into the thin shadow of a dry reed by some burned-out watercourse.

There is a fell disease of this century called 'snobbery of the soul.'

'I think, I replied, 'it is the sort of snobbery that nations go to Hades for.'

The old gods are falling about us, there is little left to raise our hearts and minds to, and amid the wreck and ruin of things only a snobbery is left to us, thank heaven, deeply graven in the English heart; the snob is now the ark that floats triumphant over the democratic wave; the faith of the old world reposes in his breast, and he shall proclaim it when the waters have subsided.

Nor did he ever grow too grand to go into the kitchen afterwards and gossip with the servants, sitting down in his sable robes and peacock's feathers without thought of snobbery, without desire to make himself appear great in humble eyes.

You'll spy himas a Yankeegassing loud About his pride, and yet chin-deep in snobbery; Leaving State matters to corruption's crowd, And justifying (literary) robbery.

When children appear on the scene, then we justify all our weaknesses, our compromises, and our snobbery, by saying: "It's for the children's sake.

33 examples of  snobbery  in sentences