Word: snob
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...snob, but Lubbock is the armpit of Texas. I can say this because I’ve talked to people from there who say that themselves, I’ve been there myself, and if you look at Texas on a map, Lubbock falls nicely into the pit area...
...intention of engaging J-Lo in a freak circle, she remained perched on Affleck’s lap the entire time. “It was total bullshit,” says Bringiz. “I’m like, Hey J-Lo, quit being such a snob and let’s get grindin’. But she wouldn’t.” Talk about a diva...
...mother is a sweet-toothed snob. She doesn’t waste her time, or caloric intake, on low-quality chocolate. She is a dark chocolate fiend and finds her fix at the Godiva counter at any department store. I’ve inherited her build, her temperament and her passion for the infamous aphrodisiac...
Although he is also an old-fashioned snob about taste, Epstein well knows that old-fashioned snobbery is dead. The Waspocracy, as he dubs it, is no longer the arbiter of much of anything--particularly when George W. Bush, a genuine Wasp aristocrat, portrays himself as a good ol' Texan with mud on his cowboy boots...
...snobbery today is celebrity, which is probably the greatest American art form. Proximity to the famous, not the wellborn, is the way we raise our own stock. While Epstein's definition of snobbery is conventional--the exaggerated respect for status--his critique of it is uniquely moral: "The snob's error," he says, "is to put good taste before a good heart." Epstein's distinction is that he writes with both...