Word: snobbish
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...from a fear of sinking back into oblivion and poverty. His disenchantment with his parents primed him for his eventual satire of the feckless, posturing stratum of society that they epitomized. Father, an expansive but hopelessly improvident clerk, was to balloon into fiction as Mr. Micawber. Mother, with her snobbish faith in "connections" (one of whom was the manager of the blacking factory), would become not only Mrs. Micawber but later Mrs. Nickleby. "Peculiarly unfair" treatment for mother, Wilson concludes, but there was a special reason for that...
...want to be snobbish, but Harvard and Yale players are extremely intelligent," Yale soccer coach Hubert Vogelsinger observed...
...rule of thumb, girls carrying over 15 pounds of books are law students and girls with false eyelashes are interlopers from Lesley College. . . . Don't be snobbish! perfectly nice girls go to Simmons, Bradford Jr. College, etc. . . ." - Unofficial Guide to Graduate Life at Harvard...
...vocational testing, Peterson said, "I suppose it would be a logical new area for testing. We've been so damn snobbish within academic circles in showing respect for only reading and writing skills. A greater awareness that there are many honorable life-styles would be both more honest and overdue...
...Francisco's Sunday Examiner & Chronicle. Tongue firmly in cheek, he sounds a clarion call to those who prefer pop to other drinks but feel that it is socially unacceptable. "Drink what you like," he advises. "Don't be discouraged from indulging your personal preferences by snobbish glances or sly asides...