snobbyadj.
Snobbish.
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > [adjective] > parvenu > characteristic of
snobby1846
snobbish1850
1846 C. G. F. Gore Sketches Eng. Char. (1852) 128 Thither comes the snobby gig, conveying red-faced individuals.
1858 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. Sc. Life (ed. 2) 60 If we can't get in with the nobs,..we will never take up with any society that is decidedly snobby.
1888 Temple Bar Aug. 539 Perhaps he was snobby enough to object to my earning money.
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ˈsnobbily adv.
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the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [adverb] > snobbishly
snobbishly1848
snobbily1856
1856 D. G. Rossetti Let. 18 Dec. (1965) I. 310 They have treated you snobbily enough there.
1987 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Aug. 846/1 The dolce vita set from Rome went on vacation there, drifting snobbily south to primitive Sicily.
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