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snobbery

/snob-uh-ree/US // ˈsnɒb ə ri //

势利眼,势利小人,势力范围,势利眼儿

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural snob·ber·ies.

    • : snobbish character, conduct, trait, or act.

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Examples

  • I feel like a trainspotter, noting the distinct edges and grooves that make the shared enthusiasms of Gen Z infinitely more interesting than whatever media and culture fueled my own aesthetic snobbery.

  • The Spotify roasting AI that’s been making the rounds this week is a fun exercise in music snobbery.

  • His absolute snobbery is bizarrely refreshing, while the Just Like You's around him try to seem as “normal” as possible.

  • Wellie-snobbery is terrible but growing vice among the British upper classes.

  • My theory was that a personal and geographic food bias was at work, a kind of coastal snobbery.

  • Both went to Oxford University and chafed at the snobbery of English elites.

  • This is because cruising stories allow the media to indulge in two of their favourite traits: envy and snobbery.

  • That the Business College should no longer require me I could understand—for snobbery plays a terrible part in business.

  • "Ah kin lick any three Neboes wid mah toes an' teeth," he would boast in religious snobbery.

  • An assembly of two thousand snobs will never stint its applause to an author who chastises snobbery.

  • This gentleman—for he was no less than that—was a man well-read, and his tribute was not inspired by mere snobbery.

  • The snobbery of the "social column" would really be amusing were it not so painfully apparent.