SNOBBISHLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does snobbishly mean? 

• SNOBBISHLY (adverb)
  The adverb SNOBBISHLY has 1 sense:

1. in a snobbish manner

  Familiarity information: SNOBBISHLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SNOBBISHLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a snobbish manner

Synonyms:

snobbishly; snootily; uppishly

Context example:

they snobbishly excluded their less wealthy friends from the party

Pertainym:

snobbish (befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior)

 Context examples 

I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)