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单词 snobbish
释义
snobbish
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adj

Someone who's snobbish makes it clear that he thinks he's better than most other people. Your snobbish cousin might refuse to borrow your rain coat because it looks "cheap."
If you're snobbish, you believe there are different social classes of people, and that you belong to the highest one. A snobbish person might think that graduating from a certain college makes him better than others, or that having more money makes him superior to those with less. The root is snob, which evolved from meaning "shoemaker" in 1700's Britain to being university slang for "ordinary person who apes his social superiors" to "one who despises those he considers inferior."
WORD FAMILY
snobbish: snobbishly, snobbishness+/snob: snobbery, snobbish, snobbism, snobby, snobs/snobbery: snobberies/snobbism: snobbisms
USAGE EXAMPLES
The two stepsisters are snobbish divas, and the prince is a poet who finds Cinderella through a melody she wrote.
Washington Post(Nov 18, 2016)
As for his supporters, they dismiss us as snobbish left-wing elitists completely out of touch with what’s happening in the “real America.”
Washington Post(Nov 23, 2016)
“Especially when it comes to college basketball, we tend to be pretty snobbish.”
New York Times(Sep 13, 2016)
adj befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior
Syn
clannish, cliquish, clubby, snobby
private
confined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy
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