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 Translation for 'snobbishness' from English to Spanish
NOUN   snobbishness | snobbishnesses
SYNO snobbery | snobbishness | snobbism
esnobismo {m}snobbishness
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Translation for 'snobbishness' from English to Spanish

snobbishness
esnobismo {m}
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Usage Examples English
  • There is also the theme of snobbishness from the island's establishment.
  • As written by Manners, "Peg o' My Heart" contrasts the snobbishness of the British upper-middle class (Peg’s aunt Chichester) with the good-willed and sweetly sentimental character of the Irish lass, Peg - a commonplace theatrical conceit.
  • One problem she did occasionally encounter from older actors was a certain snobbishness about her non-theatrical origin: a "real" actress had stage training.
  • Fred has a certain amount of snobbishness and appreciates the finer qualities of life, as shown clearly in the Alex Graham era strips, with attitudes of the time.
  • One of the main aims of VCO is to make the opera genre more widely available and to free it from elitist stereotypes and snobbishness.

  • He finds it difficult to adapt to upper class customs and faces snobbishness from Lord Denvee and difficulties with his butler Jarms.
  • Jennifer is delighted to move amongst the social elite but faces snobbishness because of her background.
  • The girls feel that she must be out of her mind for doing this, but Liz castigates them for their hypocrisy and snobbishness.
  • Sports-related tribulations, commencement activities, and Shirley's fame-induced snobbishness form an undercurrent to the two main plot pieces: The arrival of a film company on campus, and Shirley's eventual kidnapping.
  • By being, on the surface, a little ironical about Lord Peter Wimsey and his noble ancestors, she is enabled to lay on the snobbishness ('his lordship' etc.) much thicker than any overt snob would dare to do".

  • Cecilia's pride and snobbishness make her despise her husband, a man she regards as an unrefined peasant; their marriage remains unconsummated.
  • Macphail objected to the Royal Military College of Canada in 1924 on the grounds that it taught snobbishness and provided a cheap education for the sons of the rich; in 1931 she objected to government support for the college as she opposed it on pacifist grounds.
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