Word: snobbishly
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...millionaire standards, but they have vacation retreats in the mountains and cruise the Gulf of Panama aboard their private yachts. Yet in the strict sense, they are not oligarchs. They are less formal than the dynastic families of Peru and Colombia, probably not as rich, certainly not as snobbish...
...course, a bear's nose is a big target). They drive motorcycles in the dark, turning the headlights on and off and stopping for traffic lights along the way. They are so intelligent that they are painful to watch. It makes an American think of all those snobbish slobbish fat brown blubber-bottomed freeloading Yellowstone bears, who have yet to lift paw or claw for their country...
Decency is often a question of style. Many Britons feel that there was nothing wrong, or at least new, in a Cabinet minister having a mistress. But there is a slightly snobbish feeling that Christine Keeler and her set really were a bit too casual. Although in Britain the official mistress has never quite reached the glittering status she has in France, the great and small affairs of the past were more likely to be quiet, settled, near-permanent arrangements. A new factor, says Daily Mail Columnist Anne Scott-James, is the "sleaziness of the crowd with which...
...unemployed. Within the academic community there are the intellectually concerned and the financially preoccupied. To talk of the "spirit of the Negro people" in Atlanta is to ignore the presence of a rigidly structured Negro society, led by an upper crust as jealous of its privileges, as pretentious and snobbish, as any upper crust anywhere in America...
...International Dictionary discarded the label "erroneous" for misuse of a word, sanctions any incorrect usage as long as it is common. It calls like, for example, a synonym for as, citing as authority Art Linkletter on a TV program. Writes Macdonald: "It is felt that it is snobbish to insist on making discriminations-the very word has acquired a Jim Crow flavor...