Definition of "snob" [snob]

• One who tends to patronize, rebuff, or ignore people regarded as social inferiors and imitate, admire, or seek association with people regarded as social superiors. (noun)
• One who affects an offensive air of self-satisfied superiority in matters of taste or intellect. (noun)

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• ""Ah! my dear old friend, " he said, -you see I have become what they call the snob!"
• "That's what I call a snob -- judging people by whether they're rich and important -- by whether it's worth while to know them."
• "You keep saying that, unless I think the BSO is overpaid, I'm some kind of snob, but you yourself are a snob from the other end, and I don't put any more moral stock in populist snobbery than elitist snobbery."