| 单词 | snobbish |
| 例句 | “Yeah. Buellton and Brownley, really, but what kind of names are those for knuckleheads like them? Mom was going through some snobbish upper-class phase with husband number one.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z She wanted to know everything about me and wasn't snobbish or anything. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Elderly Mr. and Mrs. Riddle had been rich, snobbish, and rude, and their grown-up son, Tom, had been, if anything, worse. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z When I say this, I am not merely drawing attention to the fact that our generation had a less snobbish attitude as regards which employers were landed gentry and which were 'business.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Never mind that he probably didn’t deserve their honor—they knew what kind of man he was: arrogant, color- struck, snobbish. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Soweto was seen as the snobbish township and Alexandra was seen as the gritty and dirty township. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Later that night Kim took me aside, scolding me for being snobbish about our new house. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Consequently we were not royal but snobbish, not aristocratic but class-conscious; we believed authority was cruelty to our inferiors, and education was being at school. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z I told her that was a pretty snobbish thing to say, if you thought about it at all, and that I hoped it was unworthy of her. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z My formative years were spent in a Stepford world of striving to assimilate, to avoid judgment, to escape the snobbish scrutiny of the “better” classes. My life is a Bravo reality show: How “Jersey Belle” smooths over my hometown’s poisonous history 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z “People were once snobbish about anything coming from the internet,” Ms. Ferragni said, sitting in the lobby of the Bowery Hotel last week, as New York Fashion Week ended. How Do You Say ‘Kardashian’ in Italian? 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z He prints plenty of contumely — mostly snobbish disapproval from Eastern visitors — about his hometown. Los Angeles Through the Centuries, Glimpsed by Kerouac, de Beauvoir, Waugh and Others 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z But here's the thing: we make going to the opera snobbish only if we want to imagine that it is. Love opera. Don't fall into the trappings trap 2010-05-27T21:00:00Z This snobbish definition of excellence is opposed to the classical concept of a Republic of Letters. Virgil Thomson’s Enduring Critique of Classical Music in America 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z In similar fashion, her 2007 biography of Edith Wharton rescued Wharton from her snobbish, old-fashioned reputation and reimagined her as a modern. In ‘Tom Stoppard,’ Hermione Lee Takes On a New Challenge: a Living Subject 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z And it wasn’t Enron or the Iraq war that caused the breakup; it was her boyfriend’s snobbish parents, and that reflects Victorian values, not the new millennium. | 'My Generation': 10 Years After the Prom: Friends as Landmarks 2010-09-22T21:57:00Z So the decision was made to create a rundown community centre whose philanthropic aims - to better the lives of Pagford's council estate residents - are anathema to its wealthier, snobbish denizens. Casual Vacancy: from page to screen 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z Princeton is a snobbish institution and it is both buttoned down and conservative. Princeton Digs Deep Into Its Fraught Racial History 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z The Sedgwick children’s grandmother, a Colony Club member so stratospherically snobbish that she found the Social Register vulgar and the Vanderbilts de trop, once bragged that her bare feet had never touched the ground. ‘As It Turns Out,’ a Sister’s Remembrance of Edie Sedgwick and Andy Warhol 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z That’s not a snobbish statement, but rather an acknowledgment that, in New York, out-of-the-way places can produce some first-rate theater. | 'The London Merchant': ?The London Merchant,? an 18th-Century Gem - Review 2012-01-17T22:41:24Z Marriage to a girl from Virginia's snobbish horse country follows, ending, unsurprisingly, in divorce. All That Is by James Salter – review 2013-05-11T13:01:01Z “I was 21 and felt successful but she was ashamed of everything I did because it didn’t fit her snobbish ideals.” ‘I wish I’d told Dad how much I hated him’ – when children ditch their parents 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z "Tarantino is the expression of an elitist, relativistic and snobbish culture," Bondi said in the interview. Italian politician slams Tarantino's Venice stint 2010-09-18T03:39:00Z Light music has certainly suffered over the last half century because of snobbish attitudes and humdrum performances. Rodgers and Hammerstein: the Mozarts of the 20th century 2010-08-11T20:45:00Z “Let’s not be too snobbish when talking about the written word,” he said. We, the Writers? A Global Literary Congress Meets in New York. 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z "It was snobbish; it was class distinction; it was exploitation but it worked," Mannin wrote later. Servants: A Downstairs View of Twentieth-Century Britain by Lucy Lethbridge – review 2013-03-25T08:00:09Z She wasn’t mean or snobbish as some small dogs tend to be — just in a constant fight for attention. Your Dog Has Seen Me Naked 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z There’s been a lot of debate this year about the supposed “elevated horror” genre: is it just snobbish nonsense made up by critics to dignify what needn’t be dignified? Mutant bears, flying heads and chainsaw duels: the best movie moments of 2018 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z In my snobbish pursuit of naturally leavened sourdough breads these past several years, I've neglected the throwback joys of a soft, buttery dinner roll. America's best throwback bread course is found at Texas Roadhouse 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z They informed me that it is snobbish and obnoxious and pedantic and prescriptive and elitist and outrageous to make fun of someone whose message is so earnest and inarguably correct. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Leading the fight against mispronunciations 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z With the intimidating hauteur of a snobbish wine steward, he steered viewers to the proper assessment of contestants. Simon Cowell celebrated on `American Idol' finale 2010-05-27T08:56:00Z And he can be rather snobbish in his food choices. Couples Who Eat Together May Not Stay Together 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z Frasier, the acclaimed sitcom about a snobbish radio psychiatrist, may be returning to TV. Frasier: Kelsey Grammer's snobbish shrink poised for a return to TV 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z I recall, too, my snobbish horror the year I realized that she did this. How I found Christmas again in Grandma Ruth's peanut butter balls 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z Erudite without being snobbish, Mr. Osborne conveyed a seemingly limitless ardor for the job. Robert Osborne, Turner Classic Movies host and film historian, dies at 84 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z Instead, this novel for adults is filled with a variety of people like Harry’s aunt and uncle, Petunia and Vernon Dursley: self-absorbed, small-minded, snobbish and judgmental folks, whose stories neither engage nor transport us. Book Review: ‘The Casual Vacancy’ by J. K. Rowling 2012-09-27T05:00:00Z She is socially ambitious and, all right, laughably snobbish, but one woman's snobbery is another's aspiration. Is it wrong for a person to change their accent? 2013-04-20T16:59:01Z “This kid from this snobbish family that lived in the brownstone next door to us began to tease me. He said, ‘Lily Day must’ve hit the number, because you got new shoes.’ The Fashion Outlaw Dapper Dan 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z In brief New England scenes that are among the book’s best, the adolescent Jeannie attends a snobbish boarding school, where she sees more grass than she will ever see on land that feeds livestock. Books of The Times: ‘The Son,’ a Novel by Philipp Meyer 2013-06-19T21:01:43Z “Tonight, I’m dining on pheasant bordelaise with peach fuzz dressing,” said Ginger Rogers’s character in the wisecracking 1937 movie “Stage Door,” ridiculing snobbish fancy food. Edible Blossoms to Brighten Your Plate 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z But I don't think you should be too snobbish about food. Heston Blumenthal: 'I like a kebab as much as the next person' 2011-02-13T20:30:00Z It has made criticism increasingly more accessible and less snobbish for people who seek it out and want to engage with opinions that differ from their own. Do audiences even trust movie critics anymore? The downfall of Rotten Tomatoes and media criticism 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z The two stepsisters are snobbish divas, and the prince is a poet who finds Cinderella through a melody she wrote. Meet the next Mozart, an 11-year-old girl who just wrote her first opera 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z David Bryan Jackson is funny and persuasive as Candida’s father, Mr. Burgess, a snobbish businessman whose predatory labor practices vex the Rev. Morell. Review | A giddy poet lights up ‘Candida’ 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z Lessing's departure into science fiction in the late 1970s raised some predictably snobbish responses from literary critics, one writing that she "propagandises on behalf of our insignificance in the cosmic razzmatazz". Summer voyages: Shikasta Re: Colonised Planet 5 by Doris Lessing 2013-07-22T12:26:12Z Of course, there's also something very patronising and snobbish about all this. Willy Russell: let's have a rethink | John Crace 2010-04-06T10:31:00Z You sound much more snobbish than Woolf ever did. In Search of Virginia Woolf’s Lost Eden in Cornwall 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z But, in a sense, it is stolen by Jacqueline King, who gives a dazzling performance as Heavenly's outrageously snobbish mother. Beyond the Horizon / Spring Storm 2010-04-08T10:21:00Z “I am not snobbish in relation to the royal family; not snobbish of knowing Madonna or disc jockeys — but I am snobbish about meeting historians or the political establishment in different countries.” George Weidenfeld, British Publisher of ‘Lolita’ and London Fixture, Dies at 96 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z In 1904, Henry Adams characterized Harvard students as languid, snobbish dunderheads. The coddling of the conservative mind 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Reading his books has led me to admire Somerset Maugham, whom I was too snobbish to look at when I was young. Edmund White Thinks Most People Misread ‘Lolita’ 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z Moreover, this coup would bring fame and fortune to Andre so he could wed Peggy in style -- with her snobbish family’s blessing -- rather than eloping to New York. 'TURN: Washington's Spies' recap: Providence shines on Patriot cause 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z Ridiculously snobbish though this sounds — and cruelly unfair, given Rietveld’s commitment to teaching and writing — it is doubtless true. Design's Odd Man Out Gets Moment in the Sun 2010-10-17T18:00:00Z The French are fussy and snobbish, the Indians clannish and boisterous, and the movie is in such a hurry to avoid real conflict that it also avoids suspense, drama and emotional impact. In ‘The Hundred-Foot Journey,’ Kitchen Wars Break Out 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Components designed to sabotage a serene union include the bride’s snobbish father, hostile brother, a pair of heirloom rings that Marcus must keep safe, and more. ‘Vacation Friends’ Review: Life Lessons Amid Chaos 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z Extracts from The Lost Diaries: Virginia Woolf May 7th Am I merely snobbish in thinking that the lower classes have no aptitude or instinct for great literature or indeed literature of any kind? Craig Brown: The Lost Diaries 2010-10-01T23:05:00Z The English are snobbish and overbearing but not very well-informed. ‘Sons of Liberty’ on History Looks at American Revolution 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z “Aviation was huge in the Second World War, and so were the casualties. They couldn’t afford to be snobbish.” Samuel Hynes Discusses His Book ‘The Unsubstantial Air’ 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z They have established a kind of cult of the middle American, siding with him as he makes his stand against the snobbish and fashionable liberals who besiege him. Hipsters, they’re just like us! “Normcore,” Sarah Palin, and the GOP’s big red state lie 2014-04-27T11:00:00Z They are snobbish if you will, but they often have a lot more information. You can be a wine snob too! 2013-01-02T12:45:00Z Many defenders of “The Goldfinch” seemed to divide its readers into those who allowed themselves to appreciate the book’s obvious pleasures and those who were too snobbish or circumspect to do so. Henry James and the Great Y.A. Debate 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Irish cooking marries with Guinness far better, I believe, than with any wine, especially the rather snobbish high-end ones listed here by Mr. Asimov. A Take on Shepherd’s Pie, Straight From the Farm 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z The label carries its own baggage, however; like "crime", or "fantasy", sticking "historical" before "fiction" might, for some snobbish and deluded readers, require an "only" to complete the description. Old stories for young readers 2011-02-24T10:32:26Z How is it that a quintessentially democratic cultural activity — buying a ticket and some popcorn and finding a seat in the dark — has been reclassified as a snobbish, specialized fetish? Is Moviegoing Undemocratic? 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z First, he must convince his snobbish schoolmates that he belongs among the Capitol’s well-fed elites. ‘The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes’ Review: Fallen Snow 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z And what she uses “Chinese mother” to mean is this: driven, snobbish and hellbent on raising certifiably Grade A children. Books of The Times: But Will It All Make Mommy Happy? 2011-01-19T19:28:18Z Instead, this novel for adults is filled with a variety of people like Harry's aunt and uncle, Petunia and Vernon Dursley: self-absorbed, small-minded, snobbish and judgmental folks, whose stories neither engage nor transport us. Muted enthusiasm for Rowling book 2012-09-27T10:23:32Z Her distaste for the popular Andrew Lloyd Webber production doesn't prevent her or her equally snobbish husband from jumping on board a planned movie version of the felines-in-leg-warmers musical. 'Cats' to be revived in London, and maybe made into movie too 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z More often, it’s where writers launch into a caricatured plot point overflowing with a predictable cast of characters: the snobbish maître d’, the avant-garde chef, the haughty sommelier. You are what — and where — you eat: From the Lanford Inn seafood buffet to those “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” organic strawberry donuts 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z In the hospitable and sunbaked Mr. Latane, a direct descendant of George Washington’s nephew, it struck me that not all people with great pedigrees are afflicted with snobbish airs. Virginia’s Lost History 2012-11-22T18:48:32Z That sounded a bit snobbish, but this actress, who began her career at the age of 3, has more reason than most to crave privacy. The TV Watch: Jodie Foster Lifts a Veil at Golden Globes 2013-01-14T23:02:55Z The reason I asked that question is because of my own admitted snobbish reaction. Wil Wheaton, lifelong fan of PBS and libraries, has one book he can’t recommend 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z This earned him a reputation for being difficult, capricious and snobbish. A hundred years of Virgilio Piñera, l'enfant terrible of Cuban literature 2012-08-03T17:09:31Z That would be insufferably snobbish and wilfully perverse, like a music critic bragging that they’ve never listened to the Beatles. I've never seen ... Titanic 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z To recap then: she was bore, a boaster and a bully, friendless, joyless, loveless, demanding, controlling, snobbish, racist and mean, even to her own dad. Young Margaret: Love, Life and Letters – TV review 2013-04-29T06:00:19Z Speaking to The New York Times about his teapot tempest, Wilder wondered if the studio was afraid of the “snobbish, intellectual” types who attended the festival, quipping that “my picture was not made in Czechoslovakia.” In 60th Year, New York Film Festival Stays True to Its Mission 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z Yes, these Rioters were nasty: misogynistic, racist, homophobic, snobbish, cruel; but they were also witty, charismatic, destined to lead. Best theatre of 2012, No 2: Posh 2012-12-20T16:44:49Z "Foodie" has now pretty much everywhere replaced "gourmet", perhaps because the latter more strongly evokes privilege and a snobbish claim to uncommon sensory discrimination – even though those qualities are rampant among the "foodies" themselves. Let's start the foodie backlash 2012-09-28T21:45:06Z To anyone born after me, this probably sounds like a hideously snobbish scene. Why Record Stores Mattered 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z "With no sign of struggle, he's charismatic and convincing as he plays Henry's various facets - witty, glib, snobbish and importantly, romantic," it said. Ewan McGregor leads all-star cast in Broadway revival of 'The Real Thing' 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z As museum founder and Walmart heiress Alice Walton scooped up tens of millions of dollars’ worth of art from across the country, thinly veiled snobbish rhetoric began to trickle out from the coasts. The 16 Best Small-Town Museums in the U.S. 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Ms. Pasternak’s readers are likely to have no interest whatsoever in the story of her Romanian girlhood, which was plagued by Communist persecution but rooted in snobbish distinctions between peasantry and intelligentsia. Books of The Times: Close-Up Portraits of Paul Newman and Martha Stewart 2010-03-21T23:35:00Z Mr. Standing wisely resists the impulse to impersonate a snobbish, social-climbing twit dropping names and looking down his nose. Music Review: Channeling the Smart Set, but Hold the Snobbishness 2010-03-01T22:52:00Z At his store in York, Pa., he would refuse to sell his gun inventory to buyers who seemed snobbish or ignorant. Created by Hand: Lock, Stock and Barrel 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z I disapprove of your project, which seems terribly snobbish, to judge by your nasty title. Books of The Times: ‘Better Off Without ’Em,’ by Chuck Thompson 2012-08-21T22:05:37Z Bryan and Joseph are doctors, and they look down on Russell, an entrepreneur whose rough manners and improbable business schemes set off their snobbish, protective instincts. Movie Review: ?Darling Companion? From Lawrence and Meg Kasdan 2012-04-19T22:35:40Z Though the movie can be equally scathing in its satirical treatment of snobbish urbanites and credulous country folk, Novak said that the “Vengeance” screenplay benefited from lessons he learned while working on “The Office.” B.J. Novak Went to Texas Looking for ‘Vengeance’ and Found America 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z Some observers suggest that the restrictions on audience behavior are snobbish, elitist, or even manifestations of white privilege. Filming the Show: Pardon the Intrusion? Or Punish It? 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z After Sabira’s character is delectably established, through a series of defiant encounters with the snobbish wives of other Home Office bigwigs, she begins to come unstrung. Books of The Times: ‘The Invisible Code’ by Christopher Fowler 2013-12-18T21:56:32Z Aimed at "readers and students", it is a personable stroll through a predictable canon: Charlotte Brontë, Forster, Keats, Milton, Hardy et al – plus JK Rowling, perhaps thrown in so as not to appear snobbish. How to Read Literature by Terry Eagleton – review 2013-07-26T07:01:00Z As the violent, manipulative alcoholic and the vain, snobbish fabricator punch and counterpunch in “A Very British Scandal,” the opaqueness of the characters gets tedious and increasingly mystifying. ‘A Very British Scandal’ Review: Claire Foy Gives Up the Crown 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z But heady as some of Film Forum’s fare may be, it’s not snobbish. How Film Forum Became the Best Little Movie House in New York 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z Murdoch was immediately asked about his relationship to politics and British "toffs", a reference to his regular attacks on Britain's gilded establishment, which the Australian-born tycoon has lampooned as snobbish and inefficient. Murdoch 'never asked a UK prime minister for anything' 2012-04-25T12:48:00Z I don’t believe that the wine industry cares about “oenophiles,” a word that is as snobbish as it sounds. Let’s Be Clear: Bad Wines Are Bad Wines, Period 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z Fashion was effectively controlled by John Fairchild, the snobbish publisher of Women’s Wear Daily. He Banned the Yahoos and Kept the Social X-Rays Fed 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z But week after week, she’s blinded to her own shortcomings by her disdain for how snobbish everyone else is. Review: "Odd Mom Out" is a Tough, Refreshing Summer Satire 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z In a magazine interview published yesterday, the Italian culture minister launched a stinging attack on American film director , who led this year's jury, calling him "the expression of an elitist, relativist and snobbish culture." Venice film festival: Italy turns on Quentin Tarantino over prizes 2010-09-17T19:15:00Z Or was it just that she was so snobbish she thought she was someone, a poet, in some way better than everyone else? At the Writing Academy 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Mr. Botstein was at Carnegie to lead his American Symphony Orchestra in Bernstein’s “Kaddish” Symphony, one of the ambitious concert works that earned him much snobbish criticism in his lifetime. Not Just ‘West Side Story’: Celebrating Bernstein’s Symphonies 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z There is this snobbish attitude where the heartland is referred to as the flyover states. Werner Herzog Does Not Conduct Interviews. He Has Converstions 2011-11-10T17:41:32Z Its view of music is not snobbish or specializing; it is improbably, almost illogically wide. A Jazz Critic Inspired by a Book of Album Cover Designs 2013-07-31T15:59:01Z And the author’s honesty gives the book an authority that is never snobbish. Review: ‘Kill ’Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul’ 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z "To unite a music scene which is sometimes snobbish or has rivalries, takes something very unique and special. " Faye Fantarrow: Sunderland musician remembered 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z The creation that would define his career came early: at 21, he was part of a travelling repertory company when he came up with a character of a snobbish, inadvertently offensive housewife. Barry Humphries, creator of Dame Edna, dies at 89 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z The bonds of friendship are also considered, particularly between the snobbish Sami and the needy Abed, who are no longer the equals they perhaps once were. Review: 'Let It Be Morning' explores a family's dysfunction amid Israeli-Palestinian tensions 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z But Williams' defamation lawsuit said it showed her as "a greedy, snobbish, disloyal, dishonest, cowardly, manipulative and opportunistic person". Inventing Anna: Rachel DeLoache Williams sues Netflix for defamation 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Petersen professed not to care about bad reviews, saying that too often reviewers were snobbish about his movies, failing to recognize the fact that they kept viewers glued to their seats. Wolfgang Petersen, Oscar-nominated director of ‘Das Boot,’ dies at 81 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z At the outbreak of World War Two he became an evacuee, returning to London to take up a place at Rutlish Grammar School, which he found "awful and snobbish". Obituary: Raymond Briggs 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z A city of filmgoers that are very informed about movies, but never snobbish about film. Oscars 2023: Harry Styles has two films hoping for awards glory 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z In his 1963 classic "Anti-Intellectualism in American Life," he argues that intellectuals and experts are viewed as "pretentious, conceited, effeminate, and snobbish; and very likely immoral, dangerous, and subversive" — and un-American. America's heart of darkness: Making sense of the nonsensical allure of MAGA 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z I can be snobbish about beans; I’ll go with effort over convenience almost every time, soaking and simmering for hours. Cooking at a vacation rental? 6 tips for success. 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z That’s partly to do with lifestyle — an aversion to “the personal trainer and the nutritionist and the insane schedule,” as she put it — and partly to do with snobbish old reflexes. 'When she howled, you could feel it': How Angel Olsen turned grief and longing into triumph 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Above all, Warner is never sentimental about her parents, though she clearly loves her anxiously snobbish father, just as she deeply sympathizes with her sensitive, novel-reading mother. Review | Marina Warner’s new book evokes the vanished glamour of yesterday 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z If Cho’s casting was a foregone conclusion, the most challenging role to fill was Will, the aloof and snobbish Darcy character who eventually reveals a wellspring of decency and repressed passion. Amid anti-Asian discrimination, ‘Fire Island’ makers found queer joy 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z “Mary started out as a fairly snobbish, rather selfish, rather difficult girl trying to get her own way,” says screenwriter Julian Fellowes. For Michelle Dockery, 'Downton Abbey' is an 'easy job.' She hopes it's not over yet 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z After one night with her snobbish roommates, Ella learns that she’s been transferred to another room, to be shared with a cranky misfit named Brigit. Diversity is at the heart of magic school in ‘The Marvellers’ 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z I got this ability to be discerning but not snobbish from my father, who once famously confessed to me that he actually liked hospital food. Salad Secrets From Yotam Ottolenghi’s Test Kitchen 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z They are very snobbish, and don't include us in their gatherings. Perspective | Ask Amy: I am fed up with how family treats my stepson 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z She may also be right that the critical reaction to her appointment from some in the sector was sexist and snobbish. Nadine Dorries: Culture secretary says social media has been hijacked 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z He kept his writing from other workers, worried they would see him as snobbish. Deep Underground, a Chinese Miner Discovered Poetry in the Toil 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z The organisation needs "a less elitist and a less snobbish approach" to recruiting staff, she told The Daily Telegraph's Christopher Chope. Nadine Dorries: New culture secretary says BBC needs real change 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z “There are different reasons why the snobbish West would not appreciate the colors,” she says in her Swiss-German accent. Pipilotti Rist's MOCA Geffen takeover is a sensuous pleasure trip you don't want to miss 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z If this family of snobbish locals chooses to retaliate, they could bad-mouth his business, which relies strongly on good referrals and great reviews. Perspective | Ask Amy: I am fed up with how family treats my stepson 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z “So, we have this sense,” he said, “of an unaccountable, European, snobbish group of people looking down upon Japan.” ‘They Need to Realize It’s Not All About the Money’ 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z South Korea's Yuh-Jung Youn was thrilled to be named best supporting actress for her role in Minari, but her description of the British as "very snobbish people" was a curious way to convey her gratitude. Bafta Film Awards 2021: Snobbery, pianos and other takeaways 2021-04-11T04:00:00Z The Korean performer said she had always thought of the British as “very snobbish people.” 'Nomadland' wins four British Academy Film Awards, including picture and director 2021-04-11T04:00:00Z It’s possible, for instance, for the royal family to be inhumane, hierarchical to the point of lunacy, snobbish and racist – and simultaneously for Prince Harry and Meghan to be spoilt and high-handed. Now there’s no doubt Meghan and Harry had to leave 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z Not since Monday, Dec. 18, 1961, had the rankings been so bereft of the snobbish, even if in those days they ranked only 10 teams because people were lazier back then. College basketball’s kingdoms have gone haywire — in case you just started paying attention 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z But just as important is the classist and snobbish aspect of the critique. Can Free Community College Unite a Divided U.S.? 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z "It felt snobbish, but not in a bad way," she told reporters after her win, going on to praise the UK's "long history and sense of pride". Bafta Film Awards 2021: Snobbery, pianos and other takeaways 2021-04-11T04:00:00Z But according to family folklore, she found London too "snobbish" and so opted instead for the University College of Wales in the largely Welsh-speaking seaside town of Aberystwyth. 'She is beautiful but she is Indian': The student who became a Welsh bard at 19 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z A celebrity chef finds romance with a snobbish food critic in the TV movie “Christmas on the Menu.” What’s on TV This Week: 'A Charlie Brown Christmas,' 'The Stand' and more 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z An intoxicated college student invites a dime-a-dance girl to a weekend of festivities with his snobbish friends. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z The show is about four women - an upper-class lawyer-turned-housewife, a snobbish event planner, a teenage boxer, and a fresh-out-of-jail murderer - brought together by patriarchal injustices. Churails: Why a feminist detective show was banned in Pakistan 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z He was allegedly angered by the words “this girl”, perceiving it as “snobbish” and “condescending”. Harry angry at William's 'snobbish' advice about Meghan, book claims 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z "To be pushing a big trolley round, cleaning toilets, it's a bit of a come-down. I don't want to sound snobbish, but I felt I was treated badly." 'They said I'd be cleaning toilets so I quit' 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z But Hanmer thinks that its reputation for being snobbish is exactly wrong. Quite possibly the rudest club in the world? - Golf Digest 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z Not only are these journals, written by the snobbish, American-born Conservative MP for Southend, witty, gossipy and completely engrossing; they also cover the blitz and, as a result, come with a built-in sense of perspective. Never read Middlemarch or listened to Wagner’s Ring cycle? Now’s your chance 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z I’m no Europa League disciple – I have a very snobbish subconscious, which I hate – but even so, that attitude has always irritated me. Espanyol v Wolves, Porto v Leverkusen and more: Europa League – live! 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z It’s a snobbish and outdated aphorism, referring to a vestigial hierarchy of carbohydrates, to a time in which tortillas were eaten primarily by the country’s indigenous population and associated with poverty. Warming Up Guatemalan Style in Brooklyn 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z “There’s more competition these days, but it’s still good business because Venezuelans are snobbish.” Costco in Caracas: how Florida goods flood Venezuelan stores 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Before the advent of The Crown – the Netflix show, not the institution – Princess Margaret was widely regarded as a snobbish, spiteful creature. How Prince Andrew forced me to recognise the hollowness of The Crown | Emma Brockes 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z When Parker launched his publication, in 1982, he considered himself an outsider in the snobbish world of fine wines. How Natural Wine Became a Symbol of Virtuous Consumption 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z “And it’s very important that we’re not snobbish and elitist about it. We must spark the interest of the next generation in these sites, because if people don’t care about them, they won’t be preserved.” Gossamer gateway to Avalon: Tintagel Castle bridge brings magic to history 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Huckabee chafed at press coverage that he found snobbish, such as when reporters disclosed that he ironed his own suits and collected Marriott Rewards points. Is Sarah Huckabee Sanders the Future of the Republican Party? 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z One Facebook user was pleased the campaign "destroys snobbish stereotypes and exposes social problems." Surprise at Moscow courier campaign 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z Anthony says to Julie at one point, referring in a typically snobbish way to her film aesthetic. Review: Smashing debut for Swinton’s daughter in ‘Souvenir’ 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z Not to be snobbish or elitist, but I agree with Spielberg that “real movies” need to be seen in “real theaters.” Calendar letters: These are professionals doing their jobs 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z The largely Quebecois crowd roared with laughter as the song poked fun at an influx of snobbish, chain-smoking, “know-it-all” French who are “occupying” the Plateau-Mont-Royal neighborhood. Culture Shock for French in Quebec: ‘We Smoke Cigarettes, They Smoke Pot’ 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z At that point, I had eaten Nashville hot chicken only once in my life, and yet I felt a snobbish disdain for the spices that ostentatiously coated the crust; the granules resembled crimson sand. The Family Business That Put Nashville Hot Chicken on the Map 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z “They were asking me to be a bit snobbish and I was like, ‘This is not right. Fashion’s Disrupter, Olivier Rousteing of Balmain 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Venturi was hardly snobbish about his work and often took on humble assignments, designing fire stations, retirement homes and warehouses. Robert Venturi, postmodern architect who argued ‘Less is a bore,’ dies at 93 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z In fact, there are already a bunch of major festivals in the UK with thousands of attendees and big-name headliners that embrace market-capitalism, conservative ideals of private enterprise and snobbish elitism. Why do people bend to the tyrannical pressures of social media? Let's get real | Sam Wolfson 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z It isn’t snobbish to think that a life in which you are in touch with the best thinking in the humanities and sciences is better than a life without those experiences. Should I Tell My Siblings About Mom’s Affair? 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z Working-class reality television that does exist often does not aspire to capture the humanity of its subjects as much as it attempts to provide fodder for snobbish humor. We need more working-class TV now: Why won’t pop culture reflect American reality? 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z “I think this was my own way to say I’m not snobbish,” he said. Fashion’s Disrupter, Olivier Rousteing of Balmain 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z He said that, like Trump, he plans to run on a platform of restoring manufacturing jobs, a message that has little appeal for establishment Republicans he called “snobbish.” With Corey Stewart atop the ticket, Virginia Republicans are in turmoil 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z Then I thought of how snobbish that sounded and was ashamed of myself. David Sedaris: ‘If I come across a man my size, I squeak’ 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z Indeed, what’s snobbish is to reserve these goods for the few. Should I Tell My Siblings About Mom’s Affair? 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z “You associated yourself with this fun, cool, with-it, hip brand that wasn’t snobbish or so exclusive that it felt like a European luxury brand.” Spade remembered as vibrant and colorful, like her creations 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z Can luxury designer brands no longer afford to be snobbish or aloof? Fashion’s Disrupter, Olivier Rousteing of Balmain 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z Mister Brau was a musical sitcom about the culture clash between a black nouveau-riche pop star duo and their snobbish white neighbours. Bahia is Brazil's blackest state – but you'd never guess it from latest TV soap 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z There’s a nasty snobbish undertone to it all, a ghoulish willingness to pounce on anything that makes Prince Harry’s future wife look faintly trashy. Leave the Markles alone. The need for gossip shouldn’t lead to snobby trashing | Gaby Hinsliff 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z The people who defend gun rights believe that snobbish elites look down on their morals and want to destroy their culture. Before gun control, respectful conversations between Blues and Reds 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Vice President Mike Pence on Saturday for what it called “shameful” and “snobbish” behavior not in line with the spirit of the Olympics. No Olympic truce for US, North Korea in Pyeongchang 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z I think they are scared to not be cool…I think the “trend” today is trying to not be snobbish. Fashion’s Disrupter, Olivier Rousteing of Balmain 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z Who cares what a bunch of snobbish billionaires think? In Davos, a Club Trump Has Revered and Resented Finally Opens Its Doors 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z And he loves that Trump’s White House is less “snobbish” and more welcoming to people like him. Elitists, crybabies and junk degrees 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z If there is one thing I’m snobbish about, it is fiction that functions primarily as allegory. Letters of Recommendation: ‘Twin Peaks,’ Screaming Karaoke and More 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z There is now such a blur between film and TV that if any actor remains snobbish about the small-screen medium, “it is their loss”, Benedict Cumberbatch has said. Snobbish about TV? It is your loss, Benedict Cumberbatch tells actors 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z Other companies followed suit, with the three classes tending to linger in the snobbish south, but second was mainly gone by 1930. Should first-class train travel be abolished? 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z They could be sycophantic to power and snobbish, but they also felt duty-bound to elevate the standards of society and readers. Perspective | How Silicon Valley is erasing your individuality 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Kwanda may not fit in easily with the rowdier, poorer initiates who taunt him regularly about his expensive sneakers and snobbish air, but that doesn’t mean he’s not fully aware of the world around him. Questions of self and manhood run deep in remarkable South African drama 'The Wound' 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z As a result, her name was dropped from the snobbish Social Register, which excluded actors. Dina Merrill, heiress and actress, dead at 93 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z Isn’t it snobbish to fuss over Trump’s plans to eliminate all funding for the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Corp. for Public Broadcasting? President Trump vs. Big Bird 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Isn’t it snobbish to fuss over Trump’s plans to eliminate all funding for the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting? President Trump vs. Big Bird 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z “European designers tend to be a bit more snobbish when it comes to doing things that have a larger diffusion and are more accessible price-wise.” The Cool Kids Behind Opening Ceremony 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z What answers the prince’s question was over in Dr. Johnson’s own apartment, since Johnson was himself an eccentric given to chemistry experiments—“stinks,” as snobbish Englishmen call them. Are Liberals on the Wrong Side of History? 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z It would be snobbish to lament Sheeran’s dominance, because his music clearly means the world to millions, and the thought of an album becoming part of the fabric of people’s lives is always heartening. Ed Sheeran's dominance of the Top 20 is a only a symptom of how sick the charts are 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z The marriage of reason was not, in hindsight, reasonable at all; it was often expedient, narrow-minded, snobbish and exploitative. Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z We are deep into intellectual elite territory here - and the sort of snobbish, West Coast whining that will, no doubt, be silenced by the new man in the White House. US election 2016 results: Eight ways the election might have been different - BBC News 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z “Especially when it comes to college basketball, we tend to be pretty snobbish.” N.C.A.A. Leaves North Carolina in a New Spot: Sapped of Sports Pride 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z But the play also addresses the toll of Jim Crow segregation on others — on impoverished single mothers, a black soldier on leave from World War I, a snobbish landlady and on Herman’s racially myopic family. At Intiman, a story about race, privilege and love 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z It was just one of Clayton’s playful projects dedicated to celebrating the world’s music in its glorious variety – not in snobbish opposition to western pop, but rubbing up happily alongside it. DJ /rupture: the shapeshifting savvy selector behind world music 2.0 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Had this been a snobbish section of the Hamptons, or a quiet country house upstate, things may not have worked out. Before Taking the Plunge, Letting the Club Play Cupid 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z “Some clubs charge you to enter, but other people get in free. It’s snobbish.” New York Today: First Impressions of Our City 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z “I was a fairly snobbish academician who looked down on biotechnology,” he told me. Miracle Microbes? 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z "There seemed to be a stigma surrounding eating healthy; it felt snobbish or elitist to do so," she remembers. 8 Ways Nutritionists Have Changed Their Diets Over the Past 10 Years 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z I worked very hard over the years not to be in thrall to attitudes that were confining or snobbish. Margo Jefferson: ‘I was anxious about using the word Negro in a book title’ 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z “Before that, the Chinese élite were very reserved and almost snobbish in their view of foreigners. They thought of the European élite as backward people who wanted to acquire culture from China.” China’s Rich Kids Head West 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z She was intense and absent-minded, but not at all snobbish and given to sudden, unsolicited generosity. Why did two parents murder their adopted child? | Giles Tremlett 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z The Trump brothers are careful to avoid the impression that they are snobbish or otherwise dismissive of ordinary folk. Donald Trump's sons hunt pheasants ahead of Iowa caucus: 'They're hardcore' 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z Anyone still inclined to see James as a narrowly snobbish character will be reminded by his memoirs of how openhearted he could be. The Peculiar Radiance of Henry James’s Memoirs 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z So begins Mister Brau, a new musical sitcom on Globo, Brazil’s dominant television network, whose central conceit is the culture clash between a black nouveau-riche pop star duo and their snobbish white neighbours. Brazilian television slowly confronts country's deeply entrenched race issues 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z Many middle-class locals now chose to shelter at home instead of mix with the East End and were labelled "snobbish" by the new working-class residents. The Blitz families who built a city underground - BBC News 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z “We saw some real groovy things, but they were too chic for Barbara -- not for me, of course,” Yvonne said, affecting a snobbish tone. That time Yvonne Craig almost ran over Vincent Price with the Batgirlcycle 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z In it, a snobbish, unpleasant historian from New York travels to Los Angeles to track down Nan—fictionally renamed Rebekah Kinney—in hopes she might still have love letters and memorabilia. President Harding, his mistress and her bestseller 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z Over the decades, the industry has seen an assortment of snobbish Englishmen, arrogant Canadians and Ivan Drago-esque Soviet supermen going up against American stars. The history of racism in wrestling goes deeper than you might think | Owen Duffy 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z Rees played the snobbish Robin Colcord on television’s “Cheers” and the title character in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s original production of “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby,” in England and on Broadway. Tony Award-winning actor Roger Rees dies at 71 in New York 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z Rees played the snobbish Robin Colcord on television's "Cheers" and the title character in the Royal Shakespeare Company's original production of "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby," in England and on Broadway. Tony Award-winning actor Roger Rees, the stage's original Nicholas Nickleby, dies at 71 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z Miss Mackay was so scathing about the young men in the stag lines, so confidently snobbish. The Cabaret Beat 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z Comments like this, probably meant affectionately, have earned her the reputation of being snobbish, even anti-semitic. The Joyful, Gossipy and Absurd Private Life of Virginia Woolf 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Colleagues at M.I.T. whispered that Seung had gone off the rails, and in the more snobbish circles of theoretical neuroscience, the engineering project was seen as, in Seung’s words, “too blue-collar.” Sebastian Seung’s Quest to Map the Human Brain 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z There’s a nice variety of personality types, from a snobbish sorcerous to an irreverent elven archer to a rugged Grey Warden. 'Dragon Age: Inquisition' Review: Into The Great Wide Open 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z She only arrived to work in the city two months ago from London, where she admitted the "Whitehall set" were a bit snobbish about her leaving for Wales and Newport. Clinton and ex-leaders to visit city 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z But let us take exception just to irritate these snobbish poll takers. Editorials from around Pennsylvania 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z “They tend to be Blues. And what you hear is not just racism but snobbish attitudes. Snobbery on a level that you would not even believe still exists in this country.” Nigel Farage Interview: 'I Want to Be Minister for Europe' More widely, the Nobel is seen as the perfect platform from which to counter US cultural hegemony; and there’s a notion that the snobbish Nobel judges don’t like to reward authors who actually sell. The real scandal of Patrick Modiano's Nobel win is that Philip Roth is a huge loser – again 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z “What you hear is not just racism but snobbish attitudes. Snobbery on a level you would not believe still exists in this country,” he says. Exclusive: Ukip Leader Nigel Farage Calls Other Party Leaders 'Truly Appalling People' Her infamous essay on U & Non-U language was ridiculed as snobbish after publication, but was in fact a great tease during the provincialism of the 1950s. The six sisters that captured the maelstrom 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z It may have been cruel, stupid, surly and snobbish. Is it OK to hate hipsters? 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z Their characters weren’t prissy or snobbish in the slightest. The Lauren Bacall standard 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z We saw none of the snobbish hauteur that you sometimes experience in expensive restaurants, where the management attitude is one of determining whether you are important enough to be allowed into their overpriced underperforming fortress. Seven Management Lessons From The Legendary French Restaurants 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z And it's been bashed for a snobbish view that non-graduates are not marriage material for a clever woman. Could graduate weddings widen the inequality gap? 2014-03-19T17:06:38Z But Now... was never supposed to be for the hipsters, who were always snobbish about compilations - real music fans listened to all the tracks on the band's original LP. Now... but as it was then 2013-11-28T14:07:18Z I'm not snobbish about it, I'd never say, "I only do Hollywood". Royal photographer Jason Bell's tips 2013-11-16T02:46:26Z When it comes down to it the British public are not snobbish about the method of preservation, she says. Are people snobbish about frozen food? 2013-10-21T23:43:01Z Soon after he was named candidate, he caused offence with snobbish remarks about cheap wine and about chancellors being underpaid. Straight-talking Steinbrueck struggles to debunk Merkel "cult" 2013-04-10T14:17:20Z A grocer’s daughter, she rose to the top of Britain’s snobbish hierarchy the hard way, and envisioned a classless society that rewarded hard work and determination. Former U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Dies 2013-04-08T13:35:27Z Answering critics who called him haughty, snobbish and a pillar of the Establishment, he declined to apologize, especially for the last one. William Rees-Mogg, Former Editor of The Times of London, Dies at 84 2013-01-05T02:11:27Z The New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani called the characters in the book, "The Casual Vacancy,'' self-absorbed, small-minded, snobbish and judgmental folks, whose stories neither engage nor transport us." IHT Rendezvous: Why do humans have two eyes? A cheat sheet for getting into Oxford 2012-10-15T14:44:02Z Annoyed, he chided us kids for our snobbish tastes, called us wasteful. Op-Ed Contributor: My Asian Dad and Mitt Romney’s Muffin Tops 2012-09-03T01:56:16Z It is certainly true that the wealthy of Dublin tend to be snobbish and that the huge made-in-the-H-blocks Celtic cross in McFeely's drawing room window looks incongruous. Tom McFeely: from IRA hunger striker to bankrupt millionaire property developer 2012-08-10T22:00:50Z Yiyi Lu, a Beijing-based sociologist, argues, however, that “Chinese people are not so much racist as snobbish—they tend to think of Africans, for example, as coming from poor countries.” Foreigners At The Gates 2012-07-30T05:00:00Z The Oprah's Next Chapter special was called "" by one Indian commentator and "snobbish" and "snooty" by another. Oprah attacked for India special 2012-07-24T16:32:47Z The very best and busiest of the weekly journals comply with it, and persons who do not want to be treated with snobbish indifference had better not write for any other. Ladies on Horseback Learning, Park-Riding, and Hunting, with Hints upon Costume, and Numerous Anecdotes 2012-04-23T02:00:28.843Z As a user of Radio Shack’s proletarian TRS-80, I was already indulging in all the stereotypes about Apple fans being snobbish zombies that persist to this day. Apple II Forever: A 35th Anniversary Tribute to Apples First Iconic Product 2012-04-16T22:06:29Z I dare say I was to blame in the first place, and I'm afraid that I gave you the impression that we were much more snobbish down here than we really are. The Vanity Girl 2012-04-12T02:00:26.883Z I am not using the word in the artificial, conventional, snobbish sense. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z He resented still further Soapy's selfish and snobbish conduct. The Auto Boys' Quest 2012-03-12T03:00:25.647Z For example, is an individual who is judged intelligent also likely to be judged to be humorous, or refined, or snobbish, etc.? Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods 2012-02-24T03:00:25.813Z And are we not a very snobbish lot? Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color 2012-02-20T03:00:20.550Z The real nurse was snobbish and would not speak to her, which saved her from much foolish chatter. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z The sufferings of the snobbish secretary must have been intense:— 'By invitation to my uncle Fenner's, and where I found his new wife, a pitiful, old, ugly, ill-bred woman in a hatt, a mid-wife. The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare's Youth Awdeley's 'Fraternitye of vacabondes' and Harman's 'Caveat' 2012-02-14T03:00:27.797Z It appeals to that snobbish instinct—of wives sometimes—which seeks social preferment not to be obtained in small home towns, or denied where family histories are too well known. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z On the average, these individuals rank themselves as less conceited, less vulgar and less snobbish than they really are, as judged by the combined opinion of their associates. Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods 2012-02-24T03:00:25.813Z They were excitedly snobbish about these ideas as people are snobbish about clothes. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z It is natural to judge her harshly, natural to misjudge her, to consider her incredibly snobbish, cruel, common. The Happy Warrior 2011-12-18T03:00:18.863Z When the women of the politician's family grow arrogant and snobbish, then the floods of eloquence break loose for a time, and the listener may learn many things of which he would otherwise be ignorant. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z There are no longer any social classes among them; the rich ones do not arrive in private automobiles, to make the poor ones envious, and they do not isolate themselves in little snobbish cliques. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z She thinks it very snobbish to have any particular respect for a peer of the realm, but only natural to look up to persons of good family. Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honor 2011-11-11T03:00:30.420Z In the 1980s many British academics were as snobbish about commerce as Argentina’s are now. Science in Argentina: Cristina the alchemist 2011-11-02T18:18:04Z Mostyn was not snobbish—far from it, but the attitude and tone of the pair went against the grain. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z As she grew more familiar she grew snobbish. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z So snobbish are we Americans about our eating, that we make the best of our foods into bywords. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z There was nothing snobbish or disagreeable about her, but that blue velvet coat suddenly made George conscious of his own common attire, and gave Shirley a pang of dismay at her own little shabby suit. The Enchanted Barn 2011-10-13T02:00:50.933Z In the film, the upholders of the amateur ideal are snobbish, anti-Semitic reactionaries. Op-Ed Columnist: The Amateur Ideal 2011-09-23T01:10:13Z She is even more beautiful than I thought she would be, and she does not seem the least bit snobbish or spoiled or arrogant. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z I saw by Preston's face that he considered this a snobbish and ostentatious thing to do, and, in the case of an ordinary multi-millionaire, I should certainly have agreed with him. The City in the Clouds 2011-08-31T02:01:31.807Z No doubt I am snobbish, but I could never quite understand what a gentleman wanted with a knowledge of carpentering. The Claw 2011-08-31T02:01:30.563Z You want to turn your back on him again and again for his arrant snobbish pretensions or some weak and violent prejudice; yet you want to listen again and again. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z In the days of a £3 pint of beer or cup of coffee, I don't think it's snobbish to suggest people spend £6.55 on a decent wine. Why won't the British treat wine seriously? 2011-08-07T14:00:00Z It’s a case of once we used to be snobbish at Wayland Hall, but now we’re clannish. Marjorie Dean, College Senior 2011-08-01T02:00:12.720Z I’m afraid I’ve thought too much about my own pleasure and seemed snobbish.” Marjorie Dean, High School Junior 2011-07-25T02:00:16.780Z We are not snobbish, but we plead guilty to being the least bit set in our ways. Fore! 2011-07-11T02:00:06.097Z And yet, she was tremendously popular in her own snobbish set, as I could gather from conversations around me, and by the invitations she was constantly receiving to festivities. The Camp Fire Girls on the Open Road or, Glorify Work 2011-06-23T02:00:25.403Z There were a number of very snobbish girls in the senior class at school, of which she was now a member. Marjorie Dean High School Senior 2011-06-06T02:00:09.407Z And didn’t Ruth Stuart live at the same hotel with Gladys Le Baron, the snobbish cousin? The Automobile Girls at Newport Watching the Summer Parade 2011-06-01T02:00:25.733Z The very fact that she had her meals served to her in her stateroom seemed to support the idea that had got about pretty generally, that Nalbro Hastings was a very snobbish girl. The Corner House Girls on Palm Island 2011-06-01T02:00:23.043Z If I had her here this minute I’d like to slap her snobbish face. Nan Sherwood's Summer Holidays 2011-05-22T02:00:14.900Z But Mrs. Huntington wasn't; and her children were very like her; cold, self-centered, and decidedly snobbish. The Cinder Pond 2011-05-17T02:00:20.320Z This is in bad taste, and is what ill-natured people would term snobbish. Martine's Hand-book of Etiquette, and Guide to True Politeness 2011-05-08T02:00:05.770Z Any preferential treatment that exists is of a class character—snobbish if you will, but not corrupt. The Law and the Poor 2011-05-07T02:00:30.390Z Vern Martin Alliance, Ohio I’m increasingly inclined to view Scientific American Mind as a kind of snobbish self-help exercise. Readers Respond to "What, Me Care?"-- And More... 2011-04-29T12:45:00.240Z How he came to get possession of it; the price he paid; and his exquisite self-gratulation at being able to leave it as a valued heirloom to his children—snobbish as himself! The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z A snobbish Britisher, he was secretly proud of her, though his eyes smouldered occasionally with resentment at some snobbery to himself. The Pocahontas-John Smith Story 2011-04-15T02:00:20.537Z If I explain, you'll think me snobbish, Ted, and I'm not, even if mother is. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z She had the fleeting and snobbish wish that all the girls of her class could see her turning thus assuredly up the walk to the famous senior house. Peggy Parsons a Hampton Freshman 2011-04-01T02:00:36.933Z If the other snobbish girls want to be walked over just because your father has a car in which they can take a ride now and then, it’s none of my affair. The Woodcraft Girls in the City 2011-03-27T02:00:11.007Z It is more brash than a simple flock of miniature daffodils or even a cluster of pansies, but it has a common charm about it that only the most snobbish would find vulgar. Primroses can get you primed for spring 2011-03-16T20:23:21Z The individuals assembled in this tavern parlour, had a truly snobbish appearance. Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone 2011-03-03T03:00:50.847Z Fundamentally snobbish as all socialists are, the boy shook his head. The Rustle of Silk 2011-01-27T03:00:44.390Z He knew your father slightly, and he has all of a guttersnipe’s snobbish adulation of wealth and family. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z This may have been partly on account of her youth, although a more probable reason was that she had not in her earliest days so many snobbish friends to influence her. Brenda, Her School and Her Club 2011-01-15T03:00:31.087Z With the Romans began the private collection of chefs-d'oeuvre in its most snobbish aspect. Education: How Old The New 2011-01-14T03:00:54.370Z It was all nonsense, her regret and her yearning, Richard's snobbish ambition, his mother's eternal marriage schemes. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z The people on screen are ambitious but not obsessively so, educated but not snobbish about it. Film: Hollywood?s Class Warfare 2010-12-22T22:14:17Z “Well,” said Dotty, “all I have to say is that there are some who would call that snobbish!” Betty Lee, Sophomore 2010-12-24T03:00:29.270Z "It's snobbish"—his lips curled—"but I know Cadell—it will make him squirm!" The Man with the Double Heart 2010-12-21T22:55:56.757Z The snob adores one type only, and the creatures supposed by him to illustrate it perfectly; or envies and hates them, which is just as snobbish. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z What I prefer about America is that when people are snobbish, it's a bit more about money. Kate Middleton's 'commoner' status stirs up Britons' old class divide 2010-12-19T02:45:08Z You can't advertise your CEO if he is snobbish and arrogant. Asian Telecom Rumble 2010-07-09T13:00:00Z It was just another way of being snobbish and judgmental during a boom. Whelk ice cream never meant we stopped being a Pot Noodle nation 2010-06-26T23:04:00Z "All the same I've felt, somehow, that a foreign title, over here, wouldn't do—rather snobbish..." The Man with the Double Heart 2010-12-21T22:55:56.757Z And it’s not snobbish about real estate: throughout the East, she added, “you’ll see it at gas stations.” In the Garden: Conquering the Strip Between Sidewalk and Street 2010-05-26T23:24:00Z People not half so snobbish as I expected to find them. A Double Knot But he was the least lofty, least snobbish man that I have ever known. The Seven-Branched Candlestick The Schooldays of Young American Jew I can see nothing that is complete and in harmony with itself, without envy; no self-satisfied stupidity, no broad-mouthed falsehood, no snobbish faces. The Children of the World Alma quailed a little under Nancy's indignation—she was indeed a bit ashamed of her snobbish remark; but she did not lower her flag. Nancy of Paradise Cottage If in other ways it is successful, if the study gives intellectual stimulus, and practical work is carried on effectively, still it is a failure if the members are either snobbish or unsympathetic. The Complete Club Book for Women Including Subjects, Material and References for Study Programs; together with a Constitution and By-Laws; Rules of Order; Instructions how to make a Year Book; Suggestions for Practical Community Work; a Resume of what Some Clubs are Doing, etc., etc. There's nothing snobbish about me, and I hope there isn't about my daughter. By Right of Conquest A Novel Do you honestly think that Imrie's Jesus—the Jesus he serves up to you on Sundays,—the cold, logical, snobbish abstraction—would ever have gotten anybody so sore that they'd crucify him? Thirty It isn't snobbish to say this; it's just true. The Shadow And it's just that snobbish selfishness—that complete loss of self-respect for the sake of self-interest that makes so many poor people contemptible. Nancy of Paradise Cottage It’s all very well, Theo, but can we afford to be snobbish? The Daughters of a Genius Sometimes it was a snobbish, purse-proud class, as in the case of the present juniors. Molly Brown's Sophomore Days "Well, I must say—" he began hotly, "I think if I felt as snobbish as that I'd try pretty hard to conceal it!" Fidelity A Novel Somebody once said that the most snobbish thing about the whole tribe of Tombs was that they'd never learned the meaning of the word, or had to. Do Unto Others The woman is only a lay figure whom we invest with the vague splendours of our snobbish and inexperienced imagination. Captain Macedoine's Daughter Do you mean to say that you’re snobbish, too, and didn’t want neighbors you didn’t know? A Campfire Girl's Happiness Still, I cannot agree that it is snobbish to regard a groom or a coachman as a social inferior. Cynthia's Chauffeur He thought that his surviving parent was, beneath her well-mannered surface, a shallow, domineering, snobbish empress. A World Apart The Earl was an easy-going and good-natured cuss, without the narrow prejudices of his snobbish friends, and readily promised not to tell anybody about it. The Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons Being one of the exciting episodes in the career of the famous detective Hemlock Holmes, as recorded by his friend Dr. Watson Skim-milk in this instance has passed for cream, the prudish millionaire's wife, her honour saved for the world at large, is now revealed as a hypocrite to her astounded and snobbish husband. Ivory Apes and Peacocks They were snobbish folk with whom I had but little in common. The Sign of Silence These are the sure nesting-places of monopoly, and therefore, of all the fantastic extremes of wealth which make puppets of our politicians and set before the youth of the nation snobbish and materialistic ideals. The Conflict between Private Monopoly and Good Citizenship It is as easy to call this love of glitter vulgar, as to call his admiration for dukes snobbish; but the passion is too sincere to deserve any harsh name. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) But it was plain that the hit had told; and he was vexed with himself for being so snobbish as to deserve a sneer from a man like Williams. Name and Fame A Novel The Lorimer she had met, had been fascinating and a bit snobbish. The Dominant Strain There's nothing snobbish about her, though they have so much money. The Camp Fire Girls in the Mountains or Bessie King's Strange Adventure But fortunately for Khalid, the people of this district are either too rich to buy second-hand books, or too snobbish to stop before this curiosity shop of literature. The Book of Khalid He is as––as snobbish as I was when we were flung ashore by the storm, there in Mozambique.” Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation Nobody with his senses considers the like gentlemen as representing the progressive, humane, and enlightened part of the English nation; the American people may look down upon their snobbish hostility. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 You see, young gentlemen, while I don’t want you, of all things in the world, ever to be snobbish, I do want you to be observant. Young Alaskans in the Far North She could never remember being as angry as these rich, snobbish girls had made her. The Camp Fire Girls in the Mountains or Bessie King's Strange Adventure It rendered him a poseur, vain and snobbish, but it also spurred him on to contend, with phenomenal energy, against almost innumerable difficulties. Paul Jones "And you don't call that snobbish?" said Harry. The Limit Well, I reckon they’d come anyhow if they wanted to, but I must say, Mumsy, I’m kind of snobbish about your so-called beaux. The Comings of Cousin Ann To shirk this responsibility on the alleged ground that economic imperialism and organized greed will surely bring the Conference to failure is supine and snobbish. China, Japan and the U.S.A. Present-Day Conditions in the Far East and Their Bearing on the Washington Conference “Compensation” is much more heavily dosed with doctrine, but then it has a treble amount of snobbish worldliness and absurd incident to tickle the palate of pious frivolity. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete There is no snob so snobbish as a snob of good birth. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius "It's quite gone out to be snobbish now," Lady Walmer continued in a lower voice to Harry. The Limit And from the mother whom those intolerant, snobbish sisters had execrated. Otherwise Phyllis Between you and me I have been thinking Aiken's floating population snobbish, purse-proud, and generally absurd. It, and Other Stories Allys turned half about—for two breaths at least she had a snobbish impulse to overlook Billy and hurry away. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 I thought he had coarsened and got into the ways of an ordinary Tommy—and I was snobbish and uncomprehending and horrible. The Rough Road With some justice the witty writer has been charged with snobbish vulgarity because he ridiculed humble Bloomsbury for being humble. A Book About Lawyers And his admiration for an extremely good‑looking person, even of his own sex, even a scavenger or a dustman, was almost snobbish. The Martian By the realism of this picture Mr. Punch made amends for some more snobbish pictures, with the opposite social moral. What I Saw in America It is 47 not a heavy lump of stupid or snobbish photographs. Waiting for Daylight I'm not saying it's only you—it's the lot of you—idle, worthless, snobbish, empty, useless. The Wooden Horse It is not in the least that he is snobbish. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations He could be rather snobbish at times, which was not a common French fault in the forties—we didn't even know what to call it. The Martian Yet the snobbish half of the middle-classes holds housewifely work as degrading, save in the trumpery pretentiousness of "giving orders." Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) When sincerity is lost, and a snobbish ambition is substituted bad taste comes in. The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory The American state universities admit, in a pleased way, that though Yale and Harvard and Princeton may be snobbish, the state universities are the refuge of a myth called "college democracy." Free Air It’s silly and snobbish, to put the kindest construction on it. The Mystery of the Green Ray Ruth's pretty manners, of which Carl had been proud, he now cited as snobbish affectation. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life To speak of your wife as "my lady," or enter yourselves on a hotel register as Mr. Jones and lady, is particularly snobbish. How To Behave: A Pocket Manual Of Republican Etiquette, And Guide To Correct Personal Habits Embracing An Exposition Of The Principles Of Good Manners; Useful Hints On The Care Of The Person, Eating, Drinking, Exercise, Habits, Dress, Self-Culture, And Behavior At Home; The Etiquette Of Salutations, Introductions, Receptions, Visits, Dinners, Evening Parties, Conversation, Letters, Presents, Weddings, Funerals, The Street, The Church, Places Of Amusement, Traveling, Etc., With Illustrative Anecdotes, a Chapter on Love and Courtship, and Rules of Order for Debating Societies Are you still of the opinion that tradespeople should be branded on the forehead down to the third generation?—you dear snobbish treasure. Letters of a Dakota Divorcee But she had one small weakness, which expressed itself in a snobbish dislike of her neighbours, the Sugdens, whose social position she deemed beneath her own. Condemned as a Nihilist A Story of Escape from Siberia Towards the other male dogs of my team "Tchort," or the Devil, assumed an air of almost snobbish superiority, but to the females he was affability itself. From Paris to New York by Land The hallways, dim and high and snobbish, and the dark old double doors, scowled at him. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life She accused herself now of a snobbish inclination toward Sylvia, entirely aside from the perplexity and disapproval the girl had caused her. The Opened Shutters “The Automobile Girls” it was who 14 caught “Raffles” red-handed, and who saved Bab’s snobbish cousin, Gladys Le Baron, from falling in love with him. The Automobile Girls in the Berkshires The Ghost of Lost Man's Trail The other passengers were three Norwegians, three fossil Englishmen, two snobbish do., and some jolly, good-natured, free-and-easy youths, bound to Norway, with dogs, guns, rods, fishing tackle, and oil-cloth overalls. Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland It was not snobbery on their part; they understood other human beings too well to be snobbish. What The Left Hand Was Doing There were the Alfalfa Delts, who had a house in the same block with us and were snobbish just because they had initiated a locomotive works, two railroads and a pickle factory. At Good Old Siwash But they have their good points; they're kind and friendly with each other; and not nearly so snobbish as the people of little places are generally pictured. Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest There was in her no snobbish shame of her humble home. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 They were a decidedly snobbish class that year. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 "As a thorough-going democrat I always travel steerage; I'd sooner eat my Sunday hat Than take a nasty Peerage; Such sops the snobbish crowd may soothe, But not yours truly, Handel Booth." Punch, or the London Charivari, June 10, 1914 But to derive a name of obviously native origin from a place in France is a snobbish, if harmless, delusion. The Romance of Names The community consists of boozy squatters, snobbish wives of snobbish officials, anaemic old maids, obsequious tradesmen on the verge of insolvency, and two respectable and hard-working persons—the latter are Chinamen. Tom Gerrard "He is a good-looking boy, at any rate," said Flora, who was less snobbish than her brother. The Telegraph Boy “Is it snobbish to choose what really suits you, instead of following a craze like a sheep woman?” Jewel Weed Nine tenths of them, under the lash of snobbish Jewish advertisers, are even afraid to call a Jew a Jew; their orders are to call him a Hebrew, which is regarded as sweeter. The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind She had not been so deeply impressed with the importance of Mignon and her friends that she failed to see their snobbish tendencies. Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman It isn't that they're snobbish and want to seem to be what they are not, don't think that for a moment. Lady Betty Across the Water In this the Pragers fall into the snobbish habit of going outside their own country for the sake of finding some inept comparison. From a Terrace in Prague My dear," was the dry reply, "it is the same old snobbish world wherever you go. Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa "He didn't look very tame to me," rejoined James, who, though rather snobbish, was willing to admit the danger they had all incurred. The Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus Then she paused and said curtly: “The word ‘snobbish’ fits it better than ‘barbarous.’ Sand Doom But in another second I could have boxed my own ears for my denseness and snobbish stupidity. Lady Betty Across the Water The only efforts I have ever made have been to lead a normal, human life and not a snobbish, affected one. Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport He was willing to like Mr. Twemlow in spite of his snobbishness, but Dickens and Dickens’s doctrine were alone to be judges of how far he was snobbish. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens In one particular there is to a British observer a marked failing in the Bulgarian character: the Bulgars are very nervous to "keep up appearances" and that makes them appear snobbish and deceitful at times. Bulgaria She was direct and honest, and free from taint of snobbery, and a society perhaps the most restlessly, self-distrustfully snobbish in the world marveled and admired and accepted. Little Miss Grouch A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's Maiden Transatlantic Voyage I think it would be very snobbish not to join in the fun that is going on as a friend, and help to make everything go pleasantly. The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly The seven other freshmen had turned out to be delightful girls with no snobbish notions. Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore The defiant Micawber and the snobbish, essentially obsequious Dorrit were the same man. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens "I'm in earnest—oh, I know it sounds beastly snobbish, but still, shrimps at tea——" "Are unusual, though really, if you try them, first-rate." The Making of a Soul There was nothing snobbish in their gatherings; shabby boys came, girls who had made their own little dimity dresses. Play the Game! What a comfort that Lottie had turned over a new leaf, and abandoned her snobbish, inquisitive questionings! Pixie O'Shaughnessy With the sophomore class almost entirely free from snobbish influences, the dance promised to be an occasion of undiluted enjoyment. Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore Never, in all my existence, have I ever beheld such an exhibition of snobbish disloyalty—” “Mellicent, my mother has a ticket,” put in Eunice. More About Peggy Lady Martin paused, inherent meanness struggling with a snobbish desire to emulate the Duchess; and finally she gave in with a bad grace. The Making of a Soul You sneer, and dine with those that pay him; And then you write a snobbish play For democrats, in which you play him. The New Morning Poems I say it's not snobbish in us new men to consider that. Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House "My dear," she said suavely, "do you sound a little bit snobbish?" In Apple-Blossom Time A Fairy-Tale to Date The Parliament was snobbish, as it is now, though perhaps more respectful to mere rank and less to mere wealth. A Short History of England We all think of ourselves as belonging to a certain social group—whether we express it in snobbish terms or not. The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book Max felt that perhaps he was hard—or worse still, snobbish—not to feel any instinctive affection for them. A Soldier of the Legion Only he is such a conceited, snobbish little whelp that it makes you ache to cuff him. Torchy, Private Sec. However, there was nothing snobbish in David's attitude. Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls There are many silences in our somewhat snobbish history; and when the educated class can easily suppress a revolt, they can still more easily suppress the record of it. A Short History of England The idolized son of a too-adoring, snobbish mother, he had nothing in common with Grace's high ideals. Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer If we read them by the light of to-day, we find them patronizing and snobbish; but at that day they were far in advance of the feelings and opinions of the comfortable class. Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money But she wasn't as nice as she looked; in her way she was as snobbish as is Chad. We Ten Or, The Story of the Roses This was not the only occasion on which Tegnér demonstrated his superiority to all snobbish pretensions. Essays on Scandinavian Literature But away off from the cities there still lives a race of unflattered fairies who are not snobbish, and who love little girls and boys in pinafores and ragged jackets. Queer Stories for Boys and Girls The idea made loyal Ethel Brown, who had not a snobbish bone in her body, extremely angry. Ethel Morton's Holidays "I haven't come across a single instance of their being purse-proud or snobbish." The Heather-Moon "Well, now, Frank, that is"--expostulated Harry--"that is just the most snobbish thing I ever saw you do; aint you ashamed of yourself now, you genuine cockney!" Warwick Woodlands Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago Institutions that his wholesome nature and habit fully accepted he had to sneer at as old-fashioned, out of a servile and snobbish fear of the future. George Bernard Shaw I would not want to say that any of the persons on our train were impossible, because that sounds snobbish; but I will say this—some of them were highly improbable. Roughing it De Luxe Oh, how can they be so snobbish and blind! Cicely and Other Stories "Even though the Pharisees are often very snobbish, they are the best people in our nation." Men Called Him Master "Then, if you think I'm so beautiful, don't let your brother and his snobbish Duchess spoil my life." The Golden Silence We are the superiors by that silliest and most snobbish of all superiorities, the mere aristocracy of time. George Bernard Shaw She suffered some for her snobbish wonder; but she was conscious of a new, great joy. Winner Take All "Well, all I've got to say is that Rick's branch of the family has sadly gone to seed—" "Being a southern gentleman has made you slightly snobbish." Ralestone Luck This was no snobbish attempt at class-distinction: matters of Team policy were often discussed at the big round table, and the more confidential details of their work. The Mercenaries He is slavish; he is snobbish; he dearly loves a lord. Post-Prandial Philosophy For an aristocracy implies at least some chorus of snobbish enthusiasm; it implies that some at least are willingly led by the leaders, if only towards vulgarity and vice. George Bernard Shaw Already I 've begun to call it hard names, such as deadly, and cold, and snobbish. The Mayor of Warwick The little courtesies of the world and the little discourtesies became snobbish to him. Thackeray This fading glamour affected England in a sentimental and, to some extent, a snobbish direction; making men feel that great lords with long curls and whiskers were naturally the wits that led the world. The Victorian Age in Literature Incidentally, a gratifying thing happened, something in the nature of a compliment or a concession, which he attributed to the snobbish eagerness of Americans to pay homage to his nobility. The President A novel As if any thinkable sensible snobbish law-abiding Englishman would ever have defied all the drawing-rooms by disdaining the House of Commons! George Bernard Shaw There was no need of his being snobbish because this very lovely and intelligent young girl happened to be a waitress at the Rolling Stone Inn. Police!!! There is no end to the mischief generated by the publication of such snobbish statements, whether true or false. The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches Many Northerners discovered something snobbish and unsound in this preference, but they were not quite right. Abraham Lincoln Then he prevailed; and forthwith snobbish Fate, Like some whipped cur, came fawning at his feet; Those who had scorned forgave and called him great— His friends found out that friendship still was sweet. The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar On our way home the count expressed his regret at the rapid decline of the republican idea in America, and the surprising growth of the baneful "aristocratic"--not to say snobbish--sense. Russian Rambles What a lesson for snobbish young ladies, who would think it lowerin' to hem a napkin! Samantha at the World's Fair Unlike many professionals who have achieved greatness, Mr. Southard was thoroughly democratic, and displayed none of the snobbish tactics with his company which so often humiliate and embitter the lesser lights of a theatrical company. Grace Harlowe's First Year at Overton College You know what a snobbish guy Rivers was. Murder in the Gunroom Not at all snobbish about his own musical gifts, Milnes believes that singing is excellent recreation for anyone, regardless of voice quality. 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s Then, suddenly conscious of his host's critical scrutiny, he felt an impulse of shame, felt that his contempt for the man had in it something almost snobbish. Nobody's Man A snobbish English officer came up to this man who happened to be only a private, and said: "What are you doing in here, my man?" "Over There" with the Australians But this is not true on the snobbish plane. Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 2 Who is the nobleman holding his boots out of the hotel window—an act which the Snob very properly declined to classify as snobbish? Lost Leaders Heading this statement, some of my readers suspected me of snobbish pride. The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition "Well, I think I can give you a good time, and I can show those others with their snobbish ways—" "Hear, hear!" cried the excited girls. The Rebel of the School Its real name, you know, is South Fifth Avenue; but the Avenue got so snobbish it insisted on its humbler brother changing its name. Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned So I was just as rotten, just as snobbish, just as fearful of the herd, as were these other human beings whom I made fun of as the bourgeoisie. Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative But at other times she accused herself of having acted in a petty snobbish spirit in declining the chance not only for pleasant new friendships, especially Frederica's, but for a closer association with her sister. The Real Adventure They wouldn't if they had any sense," responded Grace hotly, "I never believed that those girls could be so snobbish. Grace Harlowe's Sophomore Year at High School The Record of the Girl Chums in Work and Athletics The Duke of Marlborough evidently had heard and believed in the impure tale, but that did not justify him in treating his noble guest and his friends in the snobbish and ill-mannered way he did. Drake, Nelson and Napoleon They carried a bag containing some necessary changes, and some wonderful toilet accessories with silver monograms, enough to puzzle the most snobbish nurse, also there was a luscious silk kimona of Elizabeth's in the bag. The Girl from Montana "But it's a snobbish place and she would have to give up all her friends." The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel And I have been very fortunate in my girls; I try not to be snobbish, Mr. Penny; but, indeed, if a place like this is to be useful, some care is required. The Three Black Pennys A Novel This is the most snobbish city in the whole world. Your United States Impressions of a first visit And to be snobbish was, in Raygan's language, to be "beastly vulgar." Winnie Childs The Shop Girl No nation that is essentially snobbish can be accurately summed up as a nation of shopkeepers. A Wanderer in Holland Struggle as we may, be as snobbish as we will, we cannot shake off these poor relations of ours. The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 In the de luxe shop they are leathern covered things, gaudy and snobbish in their newness. The House in Good Taste Even Mrs. Williams had appreciated that Wilbur and her literary superiority put them above and beyond the application of any snobbish, artificial, social measuring-tape. Unleavened Bread If she had not done so Lord Raygan would have thought her snobbish, though it was not entirely from snobbishness that she had wished to escape the girl of the Monarchic. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl "I said all along I didn't believe you were stuck up and snobbish." Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage They breed class envy on one side, and class contempt on the other; and the community is either divided irremediably by differences of interest and outlook, or united, if at all, by snobbish servility. The Promise of American Life You see," he explained, in summing up, "that, as a snobbish person, she could hardly be expected to forgive you for forgetting her, when she had been introduced to you four times in a season. The Inner Shrine It is a very snobbish opinion, and one who has the temerity to attempt traveling all by herself has undoubtedly the ability to see it through. Etiquette If she had declined to come, that would have been snobbish. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl I am a working woman, and a working woman can't afford to be snobbish—certainly a dressmaker can't—but I must look after my children. Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage It's mean and snobbish—and dreadful, and it's afraid to marry him. The Belfry He was just as snobbish as the rest of them when he was sober. Sandy It is unheard of for a man to refuse—unless a bridegroom, for snobbish reasons, asks some one who is not really a friend at all. Etiquette If, having come, she refused the "glad hand" to one of her father's shop girls whom Raygan chose to greet as an equal—that, too, would be snobbish. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl He had thought that his brains were to do their share in building up this great national imago, winged, divine, out of the clumsy, crawling, snobbish, comfort-loving caterpillar of Victorian England. Mr. Britling Sees It Through It wouldn't be in the least horrid or snobbish of them, you know, because they wouldn't know what Jimmy's really like. The Belfry Never was a man further removed from all snobbish affectation. The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him She's got lots of money, and--well, I don't want to be snobbish--but at home--we--our family--" "I understand," said Anderson, perhaps a little impatiently--"you are great people. Lady Merton, Colonist If she were not snobbish—if she treated Miss Child with warm cordiality, asked her a dozen questions, and listened kindly to the answers, Petro would come with Eileen and find his long-lost friend. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl For, though he was brutal and snobbish and self-seeking and simian, he had a pious and a merry and a grateful heart. The Art of Letters We had picked up the notion that Mr. Davis was a snobbish person; we found him a very friendly man; gentle, describes it, in manner. Walking-Stick Papers So ill-bred--so snobbish--to talk of your great acquaintances in public! Lady Connie It was done simply by the snobbish habit of suppressing the experience and evidence of the majority of people, and especially of the majority of poor people. The New Jerusalem Miss Rolls might be superficial, insincere, and snobbish enough to dislike claiming acquaintance with a girl of the "working classes," but there was no motive strong enough to make her traduce her brother's character. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl All the "locals," according to her, were stupid or snobbish--bores, in fact, of the first water. The Testing of Diana Mallory Frequently some members laugh scornfully at pathetic passages moving the heart of most of the house, and this laughter is often due to a snobbish desire to show superiority to those who weep. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" If they have any snobbish weakness for display, it is in the number of retainers they can muster. A Woman's Impression of the Philippines It is not snobbish to say this, because it was the truth. The Lost Ambassador The Search For The Missing Delora Dimly it had dawned upon her more than once that Rags regarded certain speeches and ways of hers as "snobbish"—speeches and ways which to her had seemed aristocratic. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl She was an alien, like anybody else--like the new men and prowling millionaires, who bought old English properties, moved thereto by a feeling which was none the less snobbish because it was also sentimental. The Testing of Diana Mallory Rugby was long considered the most snobbish of English public schools, a sad character in a country where style and name go so far. Rides on Railways Well, don't be snobbish and patronize them, and don't look shocked at any strange opinions you hear, nor act as if you were at an animal show and were wondering what would happen next. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Bourgeois manners may be snobbish manners: there may be no pleasure in them, as you say; but they are better than no manners. Back to Methuselah It would be hateful to force herself upon a snobbish family who despised her and let her see that she was unwelcome. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl Full of ghosts it might be; but she was its living mistress henceforth; nor was it either ridiculous or snobbish that she should love it and exult in it--quite the contrary. The Testing of Diana Mallory The combination satisfies their democratic judgments and their snobbish instincts at the same time. The Philanderers While many foreign critics have done the Emperor justice, others in turn have made him out to be arrogant, snobbish, bombastic, superficial, incompetent, and insincere. William of Germany In spite of these facts the clients of the Beau-Site affected to despise it, saying that the food was inferior and that the guests were snobbish. The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns However, it would have been mean to suspect a sister of Mr. Balm of Gilead of such a snobbish trick. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl A woman certainly could not think of anything less snobbish even in these circumstances. Rescuing the Czar Two authentic Diaries arranged and translated It was Louis who had insisted on the cap, which Rachel had thought unnecessary and even snobbish, and which Mrs. Tams had nervously deprecated. The Price of Love And Cicely, who had been in her day as exclusively snobbish as any other well-born damsel, felt now that it would not matter in the least if they remained rubbed out. Missing He believed that all people who raised hats did so from a snobbish desire to put on airs. Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.) His ridiculous snobbish pride reared itself up within him. Mr. Prohack The outcry—partly sentimental, partly snobbish, but mainly interested—was at first tremendous against these meddlers who would destroy the charming personal relations that used to exist between, for example, the author and the publisher. The Author's Craft No person nourished from infancy in chapel can bring himself to believe that the chief motive of church-goers is not the snobbish motive of social propriety. The Price of Love The Hallam boys were a somewhat aristocratic lot, but not snobbish, and the Gridley young men looked forward to an exciting and pleasant game. The High School Captain of the Team Dick & Co. Leading the Athletic Vanguard Barring a few snobbish airs, I always used to like Rip well enough. The High School Pitcher Dick & Co. on the Gridley Diamond "The mental attitude you caricature is not so snobbish as it seems," said Raphael Leon, breaking into the conversation for the first time. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People The little minnows put on all the snobbish airs of the whales who had grown so large by devouring all the small fish in their business seas. The Gentleman from Everywhere He was in full possession of the conventionally snobbish ideals of the suburb, reinforced by more than a tincture of the stupendous and unsurpassed snobbishness of the British Army. The Price of Love Some of the Rules may strike the modern reader as snobbish, even for the observance of youth. George Washington's Rules of Civility Traced to their Sources and Restored by Moncure D. Conway He was worldly wise enough already to know that we are more apt to call a social circle snobbish when we do not belong to it. The Shadow of the North A Story of Old New York and a Lost Campaign Claire could have laughed it all away if her mother had not betrayed such eagerness to drink this snobbish flattery to the lees.... The Blood Red Dawn "He will never add anything to it," said Ted, who also was the son of wealth, but not in the least snobbish. Radio Boys Cronies Or, Bill Brown's Radio One gathers that Lucifer, Son of the Morning, was not conceited, snobbish, nor bumptious. Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life He wrote letters to his former playmates in which no snobbish line is discoverable. George Washington's Rules of Civility Traced to their Sources and Restored by Moncure D. Conway "I know it's snobbish of me to long for finery so much that I'm even willing to live in another person's and show off in it," she sighed. The Second Generation I returned to my old thoughts of him; he was snobbish, insolent, generally detestable; but a man to be studied, and I let him talk as he would. The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories Peel, the primmest and most snobbish Tory that ever praised "our gallant Allies" in a frigid official speech, could not contain himself about the conduct of Blucher's men. The Crimes of England They do not teach people to be successful, but they do teach people to be snobbish; they do spread a sort of evil poetry of worldliness. All Things Considered One's reasons for not wanting the marriage do sound a little snobbish when one says them—right out. The Happiest Time of Their Lives Adelaide was far from her friends, and she deliberately gave them every opportunity to abandon and to forget her without qualms or fears of "appearing" mean and snobbish. The Second Generation "It may sound snobbish but it's true just the same," he insisted. Mary Wollaston It is, quite as much or more, that, with a good, solid, English pride, they do not care to be snobbish, and do not choose to put themselves upon people who are above them. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 Lies and the snobbish ridicule with which our magazines and papers have been full, run off men like these like water off a duck. Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them Serious men thaw and become mildly cheerful, and snobbish young men of the heavy-mustache type forget to make themselves objectionable. Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow "Especially," said Adelaide, "when the people whose opinion we are afraid of are so contemptibly selfish and snobbish." The Second Generation |
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