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Definition of snobbery noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

snobbery

noun
 
/ˈsnɒbəri/
 
/ˈsnɑːbəri/
[uncountable] (disapproving)
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  1. the attitudes and behaviour of people who are snobs
    • intellectual snobbery
    see also inverted snobbery
    Extra Examples
    • She faced the twin barriers of class snobbery and racial discrimination.
    • his snobbery about mixing with people from other classes
    • snobbery towards electronic music
    • the elitism and social snobbery of the art world
    • She quickly ran up against snobbery and prejudice.
    • We have to overcome a degree of snobbery about diesel cars.
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • cultural
    • intellectual
    • musical
    preposition
    • snobbery about
    • snobbery towards/​toward
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See snobbery in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

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