as in snobbery
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for snootiness
Noun
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Sir! Magazine wants to go back to basics in offering men advice and ideas without the snobbery of high fashion magazines that are dictated by advertisers.—
Hikmat Mohammed,
Footwear News,
28 Apr. 2025 -
Yes, Stanley’s needs for truth and respect bristle against the fragile delusion and snobbery Blanche protects herself with.—
Kate Lloyd,
Vogue,
20 Feb. 2025
Noun
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There was a kind of a snobbism about it.—
Julian Sancton,
The Hollywood Reporter,
17 May 2022
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Of course, culture shock works the other way around, too, and the image of Southerners who venture to the cold, bitter North for college only to be met by cultural snobbism and insulting assumptions about their identities is itself a stereotype.—
Nicole LaPorte,
Town & Country,
2 Oct. 2022
Noun
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Opinion: America was gaslit by the arrogance of Joe Biden and his enablers.—
Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
25 May 2025
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The arrogance of the IRS should shock the conscience of all Americans.—
Chuck Flint,
Boston Herald,
21 May 2025
Noun
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He's allowed 14 runs and four home runs across his last three starts, causing the inflation in his season ERA.—
Andrew Wright,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 May 2025
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For example, an RM was alerted to a large inward remittance for a client after receiving insights that the client had recently been researching private debt as a strategy to counter inflation.—
DBS Private Bank,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2025
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The kitchen borrowed the ingredient worship of Chez Panisse, but not its reverence for simplicity; the fancy culture-mash pizza of Spago, but not its Eurocentric hauteur; the cheffy precision of the French Laundry, but not its fussy formality.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2025
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There was some explanation for his elusiveness, quite apart from the everyday hauteur of the fashion industry.—
Rebecca Mead,
The New Yorker,
17 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Right now, his focus is on doing eight shows a week, while injecting a Big Easy swing to the Major General’s pomposity.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
30 Apr. 2025
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His boisterous persona was more comical than confrontational, a hot-air balloon of strutting pomposity punctured by his family.—
Jim McKairnes,
USA TODAY,
17 Jan. 2025
Noun
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In addition to the bylaws allegations, Soriano has accused Wulff of bullying and condescension.—
Noah Lyons,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 May 2025
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For decades, Russians have regarded their superpower rival with a mixture of admiration and hatred, condescension and envy.—
ANDREI KOLESNIKOV,
Foreign Affairs,
9 May 2025
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“Snootiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snootiness. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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