as in aristocratic
being or characteristic of a person who has an offensive air of superiority and tends to ignore or disdain anyone regarded as inferior
he gave us one snobbish glance and then disregarded us
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Recent Examples of snobbish
An unusual - and slightly snobbish - pairing?
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Elisabetta Tosi, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Yet, somewhere along the line, Vulcans have become the butt of the joke with their stiff, snobbish demeanor a source of ridicule for their (supposedly) more progressive human shipmates.
—Richard Edwards, Space.com, 29 Aug. 2025
In her senior year of college, Heart the Lover’s protagonist, an English major who goes by the nickname Jordan, meets Sam, a snobbish classmate who quickly becomes her boyfriend.
—Shannon Carlin, Time, 29 Aug. 2025
So many of the characters are intelligent, cruel, snobbish, yet undeniably hilarious.
—Literary Hub, 10 June 2025
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Speaking of which, the concept of royalty among members of PFV is no exaggeration, though some of the blue blood flowing through members’ veins is merely aristocratic.—
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Once owned by Perugia’s noble Raspanti family and later part of the Porta Eburnea district, the estate gradually transformed from a defensive outpost into an aristocratic country residence.—
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This version of Ryan was arrogant, unable to conceal pride in his accomplishment.—
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So long as that situation continues, the 43-year-old’s allegedly arrogant and stand-offish treatment of his players will not worry the club hierarchy too much.—
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Whelchel first appeared on two episodes of Diff'rent Strokes as the preppy and snobby Blair Warner and later reprised the role on The Facts of Life from 1979 to 1988.—
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Kiss weathered cynicism and disinterest from the snobby New York music scene in their early months — Frehley worked as a taxi driver to pay the bills — but, crucially, united with manager Bill Aucoin in September 1973, who began plotting the band’s path to stardom with the bandmembers.—
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Trading Places When snooty executive Louis Winthorpe III (Dan Aykroyd) and savvy street con man Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy) find their lives reversed as part of an expensive bet, hijinks arise — though not without dashes of controversial humor.—
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She's got the element of wild transformation on her side, but the performance lacks the kind of prestige appeal necessary to win over the snootier, international voting body of the acting branch.—
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“Snobbish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snobbish. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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