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snobbishly adverb disapprovinguk /ˈsnɒb.ɪʃ.li/ us /ˈsnɑː.bɪʃ.li/(alsosnobbily, uk /ˈsnɒb.ɪ.li/ us /ˈsnɒb.ɪ.li/) in a snobbish way: 势利地;爱虚荣地 She was snobbishly thrilled to learn that her daughter's fiancé came from an aristocratic family.当她得知女儿的未婚夫来自一个贵族家庭时,她势利地感到很兴奋。 See
snobbish What went on within their snobbishly tight little clique? I couldn't invite her to our house, because Mother snobbishly refused to receive her. Various literary types have (rather snobbishly) wondered if the footballer reads books, either to himself or his children. "Do we really want a prime minister named Kevin?" they ask snobbily. People who buy that stuff, so we've reckoned snobbily, will buy anything. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Class & class-consciousness in general anti-bourgeois anti-snob arriviste bougie gentrification gentrify go/come down in the worldidiom go/come up in the worldidiom petit bourgeois petty bourgeois pleb plebby the bottom of the heapidiom the gentry the petite bourgeoisie the upper crust underclass ungenteel ungentrified upper class |