Word: snobbish
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...have talked with other alumni and friends of Harvard, some of whom (particularly the lawyers), suggest, but do not describe, all kinds of obscure and "dangerous" entanglements. There is a chauvinistic and frankly-snobbish reaction to the notion of any part of Harvard being contaminated by "Professional Sports," with the heavy suggestion that, once this ogre gets his foot in the door. Las Vegas-in-Cambridge is only a step away...
...Massachusetts, the owner of the upland part of the beach may prevent anyone from crossing it to bathe there. That prerogative derives from a colonial ordinance of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (1641), which authorized only fishermen and hunters to cross a private beach. On the New Jersey shore, the snobbish resort of Deal forbids any waterfront property owner or occupant to allow even his own guests to swim from the beach. The rule has rarely been enforced in the past, but when the friends of a wealthy lumber dealer began splashing in the surf at a clambake this summer...
Positive: Steadfast, reserved, traditional, ambitious Negative. Snobbish, unscrupulous, selfish Career: Ambassador, ruler, organizer, religious
...ghettoes, some are corporation presidents, some have positions in university administrations, some are drug addicts and murderers, and some are probably high up in the Nixon administration. I think the most favorable thing that could be said about that remark of Dean Ford's is that it is brutally snobbish...
Second: the Corporation of Harvard College both in part and in entirety REFUSES to communicate in any sort of dialogue with the people of the City of Cambridge. The Corporation even refuses to speak to the City Council of the City of Cambridge. These refusals are acts of snobbish contempt against the permanent residents of the City...