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• n  the trait of condescending to those of lower social status

• For, said he, a "really powerful" story would expose "their pseudo culture, their slavish devotion to Nordic standards, their snobbishness, their detachment from the Negro .
• Pupils who have become accustomed to wealth, fashion and snobbishness can resist such blandishments thereafter.
• Often the returned Negro soldier was angry at segregation in Army camps, at the Navy's unabashed racial snobbishness, at the Negro's "token" representation on the fighting fronts.

• snobbery
• snobbism

News & Articles

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• Which are the snobbiest cities in the U.S.A.?
  Travel + Leisure magazine's readers were asked to rank 35 major U.S. metropolitan areas on their snobbishness.
  July 4, 2013 - CBS 6 Richmond
• Houston makes it to list of nation's snobbiest cities
  Houston makes it to list of nation's snobbiest cities Houston Chronicle Copyright 2013 Houston Chronicle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 2:52 pm, Tuesday, July 2, 2013 To determine snobbishness, the publication asked about each city's reputation for "aloof and smarty-pants residents," high-end shopping and "highbrow ...
  July 2, 2013 - Houston Chronicle

Quotes

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• David Lloyd George in E! Online
  Writing just over a century ago, the American economist Thorstein Veblen drew attention to the possibility that a certain kind of snobbishness might actually lead the amount demanded to rise as the price rose,says David George, professor of...
• Keb Darge in Telegraph.co.uk
  Most people have never heard of it,says Darge. "There's a big rockabilly scene, but it suffers from the problem of not wanting outsiders, snobbishness about dress codes and so on. I was the top Northern Soul DJ in the early '80s and I got...
• Sean Connery in The Age
  Connery explained: "Fleming . . . had a snobbishness that he wrote into Bond in the novels. It was the lack of humour about himself and his situation which I didn't like about the character . . . As to Bond the man, one must always use the humanity...