Wolfe wanted to exhibit the spiritual impoverishment, the cultural barrenness and the social snobbery of the American small town.

Although he has been accused, of course, of social snobbery, I think it's clear that he observed the life around him closely and critically.

Sometimes, the caste distinctions, recognizable by family names and places of origin, linger as a form of social snobbery.

Still the social snobbery, disdain for the uninformed and the dividing lines of wealth and fame are alive and well.

Uncomfortable with what they described as the social snobbery, pervasive drunkenness, and superficial religious life of the old country, they returned promptly to America.

Cash in hand prevailed over social snobbery, and Stevens got to build his dream house.

In this postwar context, even the social snobbery that goes with the Christie literary territory takes on richer nuance.

Art dealing as a profession originated mainly in France, where it began its long association with social snobbery.

Once free, they faced few barriers, beyond normal social snobbery, to participating in Roman society.

She makes telling observations on what might be seen as the connections among aristocratic thinness, money, social snobbery and horses.