noun

• 1A person with an exaggerated respect for high social position or wealth who seeks to associate with social superiors and looks down on those regarded as socially inferior.

  ‘her mother was a snob and wanted a lawyer as a son-in-law’

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  • ‘extra snob appeal’
  • ‘He's a snob, a social climber and a misogynist, really a very unpleasant man.’
  • ‘The nice thing about your mother is that she doesn't really care what you do, ideally, because some mothers are snobs, and that causes great problems.’
  • ‘I think they are snobs and do not want to be associated with Swindon.’
  • ‘The most common criticism is that they are snobs who criticise ordinary members of the public about their clothes and humiliate them on television.’
  • ‘My mother had drilled it into me that they were snobs.’
  • ‘He suffered neither fools nor snobs gladly and lost millions creating prototypes of aeroplanes that other companies would benefit from afterwards.’
  • ‘She was mercilessly teased by boys and other girls about her physical appearance and called a snob because her father was wealthy.’
  • ‘Where do you get off calling my friends snobs?’
  • ‘People who were not snobs, and would have been shocked to be described as such, nonetheless took a quiet satisfaction from the romance of two old and grand families coming together.’
  • ‘It points out how primitively produced goods are preferred by snobs because they are different and more expensive rather than because they are better in any way.’
  • ‘I run a business, if it flops I'm accountable and suffer the consequences, so why not have the same rule for the snobs who run the biggest companies?’
  • ‘She's a rich snob who thinks she can get whoever and whatever she wants.’
  • ‘They were all rich snobs that thought people like myself lower than dirt.’
  • ‘She was considered by most to be a quiet, stuck-up snob.’
  • ‘We called them stuck-up snobs, and they called us lowdown hicks.’
  • ‘Why should she care if it was governed by arrogant snobs like Veronica?’
  • ‘She was a stuck up little snob who thought the world revolved around her.’
  • ‘She has come to realizations that no other popular snob has ever come to before.’
  • ‘It's a lot easier to believe someone is a selfish snob when they aren't so self sacrificial to their friends.’
  • ‘He was from Barker, she learnt, forced to go to the private school much like she was, sharing her hatred for the snobs of their area.’

  1. 1.1with adjective or noun modifier A person who believes that their tastes in a particular area are superior to those of other people.
     ‘a musical snob’
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     • ‘They plug into portable devices and laptops, and will impress even insufferable music snobs.’
     • ‘There is obvious pleasure in exposing wine snobs, even more than Literature snobs.’
     • ‘What is it with music snobs only being able to appreciate good throwaway pop ten years later?’
     • ‘How many food snobs would still be raving about white truffles if they were ubiquitous?’
     • ‘But food snobs have some more tricks up their sleeves.’
     • ‘In short, I really became quite the superior rock snob.’
     • ‘But I'd argue that among rock snobs of all ages, quiet is the new loud.’
     • ‘Unfortunately you've had it: you are in the company of a travel snob.’
     • ‘Now the travel snob is not a new phenomenon, he has been around for years.’
     • ‘These kiddies are young and you won't be finding too much to appeal to the music snobs, but that there's some potential.’
     • ‘There have always been classical and opera snobs who look down on the inferior world of pop and rock.’
     • ‘A common complaint issued by food snobs is that supermarket fruit and veggies is all standardised - the stores won't stock lopsided peppers or mean-looking garlic, and it is all a bit chilled and insipid.’
     • ‘Like geeky music snobs sneering as their favourite indie band climbs the charts, they view success as a sign of impurity, popularity as poison.’
     • ‘Broadsheet snobs can dismiss me all they like, but I'm selling papers and they're not.’
     • ‘But food snobs have some more tricks up their sleeves.’
     • ‘When the people who get ‘celebrated’ are chefs, models, celebrity real estate agents and wine snobs, we're in trouble.’
     • ‘The range of drinks available, and the local approach to them, makes Italy the most sophisticated drinking culture in Europe, and there are hardly any wine snobs.’
     • ‘I'm going to write about comic book snobs later.’