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[ adjective ] befitting or characteristic of those who inclined to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior
Used in print (Newton Stallknecht, "Ideas and Literature," in Newton S...)The late R._G._Collingwood , a philosopher whose work has proved helpful to many students of literature , once wrote `` We are all , though many_of us are snobbish enough to wish to deny it , in far closer sympathy with the art of the music-hall and picture-palace than with Chaucer and Cimabue , or even Shakespeare and Titian . Related terms |
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