Word: snob
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...something about it"; 3) "I think very highly of Warren, but a man cannot go into a national convention with only one state. It's like trying to fly on one wing"; 4) "The Marshall Plan? To hell with the Marshall Plan. It's really a snob plan...
...contrast to the South's convictions, Mid-Westerners consider all Harvard men rock-ribbed reactionaries. Tied in with this political conception is the belief that the average Cambridge Scholar is the epitome of the social snob. One student from Indian discovered he had not been invited to several parties at the state university simply because beer was to be the beverage of the day. Harvard men, the local boys felt, would quaff nothing but the more expensive and refined scotch...
Lewis hated the work. Heavy theological argument with topflight minds is his greatest pleasure, but he is too much of an intellectual snob to enjoy answering not-very-bright questions. He doggedly stuck to this chore as part of his duty to Church and country, but he once wryly blamed his unpleasant war work on the "unscrupulousness of God." Said he: "I certainly never intended being a hot gospeler. If I had only known this when I became a Christian...
Said Judge Francis J. Ford coldly: "The defendant . . . is sane. He is a fanatic. Counsel for the Government said he was a snob-I do not adopt the word. [But] he was willing to adopt any ideology that would give him a chance to associate with people that he thought were of some importance. He expected Germany to win the war. What type of sentence shall I impose that will act as a deterrent to others...
...uncertain of himself; painfully self-searching yet comically self-deluded; a Tory in his beliefs and an anarchist in his behavior; unable to curb any of his physical cravings, yet capable of the stupendous discipline needed to complete the Life; romantic about love yet rakish about women; an inflexible snob and a born mixer; irrepressibly gay and morbidly gloomy. ... A character no novelist would have the audacity to invent...