snobbery
adjEtymology From snob + -ery (adjectival suffix).
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Colloquial, Rare Synonym of snobby.
- The only thing Volksworld acts snobbery about is the amount of dangerously built shit they have had to put with over the years.1999 March 30, Nick Howarth, “Volksworld^([sic]) stinks”, in uk.rec.cars.vw.aircooled (Usenet), archived from the original on 24 Sep 2025:
- When I was at college, studying music, ALW [Andrew Lloyd Webber] music was frowned upon. In fact all show-type music was seen as non-classical, and non-innovative! Looks were given by staff, if someone were heard jamming ALW tunes. […] It is just so snobbery!! I think attitudes have changed slightly since I was there.2001 July 26, Nicky, “OFF: Steve Barton”, in alt.fan.lea-salonga (Usenet), archived from the original on 24 Sep 2025:
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- He seemed all right to me. Didn't act snobbery like so many Kappins.2016, C. D. Moulton, chapter 10, in A Strange Place (Flight of the Maita; 14), [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 139: