Word: snobbish
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...hear that the rich have more money than other people and so can afford better schools, longer vacations and more luxury all around. Old money, what the sociologist in John Marquand's Point of No Return called "mellow wampum," isn't good because it's too snobbish and irresponsible. New money isn't good because it has to be acquired by means that would horrify a hard-working sociologist. Mills does not say how much money a man may accumulate and still stay morally decent...
Judge Frank W. Tomasello of Boston opposed the Commission's attempt to alter the judicial system. "The whole congestion in Superior Court," he said, "is due to snobbish lawyers who don't want to be seen in district court...
...Because of TV's enormous potential for both good and evil, Kingsley thinks that it would be almost criminal for any major artist to ignore it: "The influence of TV can shape an election; thus it can shape the fate of the nation. We mustn't be snobbish about television...
...responsibility to grow. The University's primary obligation, they argue, is to maintain its own educational quality unblemished. While history may easily prove this group right about the college's chances of successful expansion, their advocacy of retreat from the problem is unfortunate. Their arguments seem as snobbish as Jonathan Swift's "modest proposal" that poor children be sold and fed to rich children in order lower class incomes. Unfortunately, unlike Swift, they take their argument seriously. They fail to realize, however, that the University can hardly remain a leader in education while ignoring the main educational issue...
...proves to be a mean little stinker who kills puppy dogs, and his daughter Thelma a snobbish, touch-me-not icicle who is ashamed of her father and mother and their back-country ways...