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Word: swags (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dinner and crooks pinkies and drinks Perrier with lime and practices sneering at all the encroaching riffraff that are really its own terrors of inadequacy. Snobbery is a grasping after little dignities, little validations and reassurances. It is a way of swanking up the self, of giving it some swag and flounce and ormolu. It is a way of asserting what one is not (not like them), what one is better than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Good Snob Nowadays Is Hard to Find | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

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