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snobby

/snob-ee/US // ˈsnɒb i //

势利眼,势利小人,势利的人,势利

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    snob·bi·er, snob·bi·est.

    • : condescending, patronizing, or socially exclusive; snobbish.

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Examples

  • Whatever your position, there’s someone who thinks you’re being unserious and someone else who thinks you’re snobby.

  • When the show landed, some of the British press were quite snobby about it and they were like, “Oh, this is ridiculous,” which is fine.

  • It was like, he was the anti-Christ and we came from a snobby, purist direction.

  • A new study finds that customers are more likely to buy when dealing with snobby salespeople.

  • Sidestep snobby French cab drivers by hiring an iPad-toting chauffeur-driven car.

  • At first, bar patrons thought the 52-year-old—immaculately dressed, an athletic blonde with shoulder-length hair—was snobby.

  • He was a snobby Princeton senior who distrusted his own snobbery.

  • As the heir to a baronetcy 289 you would be worth ten times more than heir to an Esquireship—in snobby England.

  • Sarah Cooper is at the Branch with her snobby little husband and her extravagant toilettes; I'm not going to be patronized by her.

  • Your aristocracy is a base imitation of our snobby, revelling in the heartless hording of gold, and vaunting of bad English.'

  • We are an uncouth, snobby, and withal, shabby-looking set of varlets.

  • Not that any one meant to be rude, but they are so snobby that they cast a cloud over ones fun.