Most of the people in the club are snobs who look down on people who attended public schools. Don't be such a snob.

Snobbery appears when elements of culture are perceived as belonging to an aristocracy or elite, and some people (the snobs) feel that the mere adoption of the fashion and tastes of the elite or aristocracy is sufficient to include someone in the elites, upper classes or aristocracy.

Other forms: snobs If your best friend tells you that you've become a snob, he means that you've become condescending and you like to think you're better than everyone else. Of course maybe he's a snob for looking down on your behavior — how annoying! Snob has a funny history.

I have always felt that those who are stricken with the disease of class consciousness are really the biggest snobs in the world.

SNOB definition: a person who strives to associate with those of higher social status and who behaves... | Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

Most of the people in the club are snobs who look down on people who attended public schools.

In the middle 19th century the word took on the meaning of “one who blatantly imitates, fawningly admires, or vulgarly seeks association with those he regards as his superiors.” He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob—perhaps that is a safe definition of the character. — William Makepeace Thackeray, The Book of Snobs, 1848

2025年1月10日 · snob (plural snobs) (informal, derogatory) A person who wishes to be seen as a member of the upper classes and who looks down on those perceived to have inferior or unrefined tastes. [from 20th c.]

He allows us to understand that art snobs are insecure people: that the problem is theirs, not ours.

2024年6月25日 · Psychology Why Are Some People Snobs? The psychology of snobbery and why snobbery is rampant. Updated June 25, 2024 | Reviewed by Ekua Hagan