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 Translation for 'snobbish' from English to Spanish
ADJ   snobbish | more snobbish | most snobbish
SYNO clannish | cliquish | clubby | ...
esnob {adj}snobbish
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Translation for 'snobbish' from English to Spanish

snobbish
esnob {adj}
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Usage Examples English
  • Dulcie Wintle is Cora and Tom's daughter, a talented but proud and snobbish dancer. She is jealous of Hilary, and detests Rachel.
  • By contrast, Sir Cecil Beaton described her as "a galumphing, greedy, snobbish old toad who watered at her chops at the sight of royalty ... and did nothing for anybody except the rich".
  • Although she lives to impress others, Hyacinth regularly competes with the middle-class neighbours (whom she considers snobbish show-offs) such as Sonia Barker-Finch, Delia Wheelwright and Lydia Hawksworth (who alone of Hyacinth's rivals seems to be an actual snob, as she disdains kiwifruit as "lower middle class").
  • Male vocative forms and female ones ending in е are used regularly and their substitution with nominative forms is also considered a gross error (or the speaker may sound too snobbish).
  • Jemima- A snobbish girl on whom Preston has a crush. The feeling is not returned.

  • The will's terms were harshest on Big Guy's oldest son, the snobbish Marshall Beck (Michael Lombard) and his equally snobbish wife Carlotta (Dixie Carter).
  • In the opening pages of Jane Austen's "Persuasion" (1818), the vain and snobbish Sir Walter Elliot loves to look at his own family's entry in Debrett's.
  • Dence featured in comedy "Kingswood Country" with stars Ross Higgins and Judi Farr as snobbish Merle Bullpit.
  • In it he expressed great deal of sympathy for common Croatian people, most notably peasants whom he saw as superior to snobbish citizenry.
  • The snobbish daughter of a naval captain becomes engaged to the son of a Commodore.

  • In Scotland, young Christina weds young MacGregor, despite objections from Christina's snobbish aunt.
  • Senyora Santibañez is an exploitable image macro and Photoshop depicting the main antagonist in the Mexican telenovela Marimar and actor Chantal Andere as a snobbish and stereotypically arrogant Filipino "hacienda" owner.
  • Hillary Nicholson (née Sheridan) is the snobbish mother of Maria and the maternal grandmother of the Brown triplets.
  • "Kitchen" refers to the particularly curly or kinky hair at the nape of the neck, and "siditty" or "seddity" means "snobbish" or "bourgeois".
  • Emily: Hunter's snobbish sister. Her relationship with Hunter improves in Eye of Ends.

  • Tayanç (Tayanç the Tikky) is Zekai's rival. He is in love with Pırıl. He comes from a very rich family and is very snobbish.
  • In Simon Brett's long-running BBC Radio 4 comedy drama, "No Commitments" (1992–2007), Beckenham is the home of the wildly snobbish, socially aspirational and insecure sister Victoria; the town is frequently mocked by association.
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