snobbery

noun
🔊/ˈsnɒbəri/
🔊/ˈsnɑːbəri/
[uncountable] (disapproving)
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  1. the attitudes and behaviour of people who are snobs势利态度(或行为);自以为优越的态度(或行为)
    • intellectual snobbery智力上的自我优越感
    see also inverted snobbery
    Extra Examples
    • She faced the twin barriers of class snobbery and racial discrimination.她遭遇了阶级势利和种族歧视两大障碍。
    • his snobbery about mixing with people from other classes他对与其他阶层的人交往的势利态度
    • snobbery towards electronic music认为电子音乐不值一听的态度
    • the elitism and social snobbery of the art world艺术界的精英优越感和社会势利
    • She quickly ran up against snobbery and prejudice.她很快就遭遇到歧视和偏见。
    • We have to overcome a degree of snobbery about diesel cars.我们得要克服在一定程度上瞧不起柴油汽车的心态。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • cultural
    • intellectual
    • musical
    preposition
    • snobbery about
    • snobbery towards/​toward
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