SNOBBISH in a Sentence

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For SNOBBISH, below is one of 3 sentences:
But there are certain snobbish types who would resent the intrusion of mere laymen into sorceral affairs.

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 Meanings and Examples of SNOBBISH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
snobbish
 a.  of or pertaining to a snob; vulgarly pretentious
Classic Sentence:
1  I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
2  I begin to think Bazarov was right in accusing me of snobbishness.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
Example Sentence:
1  But there are certain snobbish types who would resent the intrusion of mere laymen into sorceral affairs.