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nobby
adjective
UKinformal disapprovinguk /ˈnɒb.i/ us /ˈnɑː.bi/
Nobby places and things are expensive:
They took us to a nobby restaurant that was far too pretentious for my liking.
The industry is full of posh people who went to nobby private schools.
Nobby people and voices come from, or seem to come from, a high social class:
It was no surprise that he had appointed one of his nobby mates to the position.
She gets teased at school for her nobby accent.
They live in a very nobby part of the city.
He plays a nobby banker in the film.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Expensive & luxurious
be expensive to do
champagne
costliness
costly
expense
expensively
extravagance
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grandly
lush
luxuriant
luxurious
luxury
luxury goods
plushly
poshly
poshness
preciousness
premium-rate
ritzy
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Class & class-consciousness in general
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