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snobbery

UK/ˈsnɔbəɹɪj/
nounC2Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #12,936 of 15,258neutral

Snobbery is contempt for those thought socially beneath you. Intellectual snobbery, inverted snobbery, sheer snobbery.

Inverted snobbery is the British speciality, where somebody looks down on anything refined, and it is exactly as much snobbery as the other kind. The word covers taste in wine and music as readily as class.

Definitions of snobbery

  1. 1nounsnobberyContempt for those thought socially beneath you.C2

    “There's a lot of snobbery about which part of town you live in.”

snobbery is a contempt.

Where it comes from

From snob + -ery.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

snobbery in the wild

  • Chronological snobbery is a form of appeal to novelty, in which one argues that the only relevant knowledge and practices are those established in the last decades.

    Appeal to novelty

  • The word snobbery came into use for the first time in England during the 1820s.

    Snob

  • Chronological snobbery is a form of appeal to novelty.

    Chronological snobbery

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.