A still more loathsome and dangerousSnob than the above transparent and passive scamp, is frequent on the continent of Europe, and my young Snob friends who are travelling thither should be especially warned against him.
We apply the Snob test to him, and try whether he is conceited and a quack, whether pompous and lacking humility--whether uncharitable and proud of his narrow soul?
I have met a Snob on a dromedary in the desert, and picnicking under the Pyramid of Cheops.
Do you remember how the sordid old Snob narrates his going out to purchase twopence-worth of sprats, which he and Mrs. Scott fried between them?
Invite our friend Snob here to partake of the feast.
And I arm myself with the sword and spear, and taking leave of my family, go forth to do battle with that hideous ogre and giant, that brutal despot in Snob Castle, who holds so many gentle hearts in torture and thrall.
What could it matter to Snob whether his Reverence were chaplain to his Lordship or not?
The Billiard Snob and the Boating Snobwere varieties of these, and are to be found elsewhere than in universities.
And this is why I have, with the utmost respect, ventured to place The Snob Royal at the head of my list, causing all others to give way before him, as the Flunkeys before the royal representative in Kensington Gardens.
Though it is only to be kicked and cheated by men of fashion, your true British Snob will present himself for the honour.
They run a book and periodical shop, if that is what you mean," rejoined Ben, disgustedly, as he looked the young snob over for the third time.
Any trainer or physician could have told this young snob that just before going off on a long race is the worst possible time for letting anger get the best of one.
But there was one thing: I thought, though he must be a snob and vulgar, advertising as he did for a wife of good birth, that very thing looked as if he were no worse than a snob.
Now and then yu will see a forrinsnob just over from the other side ov the Atlantik Oshun.
The pompous man iz generally a snob at home and abroad.
How they would sit listening to him, flashing, and telling how Deuceace and he floored a Charley, or Blueun and he pitched a snobout of the boxes into the pit.
He was a snob by nature; indeed this was the chief link between him and English society.
But he was a snob, both by nature and training, and I understand by snob what Shaw evidently understands by it here.
Snob gets wild at that, Screams, jumps, and clutches .
The truest gentleman is more likely to carry home a market-basket, or a parcel, or to wheel a barrow through Broadway, than many a conceited little snob of a shop-boy.
In this case, I suspect it's a case of whenSnob meets Snob.
The world of which the snob was so conspicuous a part seems, especially since the war began, to have passed away.
The snob is not now the appealing subject that he was in the early days of the reign of Queen Victoria.
You asked me a few minutes ago why the snob had become so inconspicuous a figure in our modern society.
He thought I meant that I'd think over dropping my power--thought I was as big a snob as he and his friends of the Travelers, willing to make any sacrifice to be "in the push.
But, while Matthew Blacklock has the streak of snob in him that's natural to all human beings and to most animals, he is not quite insane.
I don't know why it is that ladies are so cruel; I am not such a snob as to persecute anybody.
The country shall see sir Wilton Lestrange's heir a blacksmith because he wouldn't be a snob and deny his own flesh and blood!
The people who worship the Dragon are sometimes called Snobs--not by themselves though; it is one of the marks of the true Snob that he never knows he is one.
Snob nevertheless bullies), who is a favorite abomination of Leech, and pursued by that savage humorist into a thousand of his haunts.
Gaylord was rapidly developing into an impossible little bully, the usual result of an impoverished snob who manages to become a barnacle-like fixture on someone a trifle more foolish yet better of nature than himself.
You don't realize that Gay is a bankrupt snob and married Trudy only because he could play off cad behind his pretty wife's skirts.
But there are vulgar persons with bad manners who who are not in the least snobs, so that after stating the general order of the persons to which a snob belongs, you must separate him from all other varieties of that class.
A snob will run hat in hand to open a door for a wealthy woman of rank, and will not give a helping hand to a poor woman who has fallen down.
First, you give some general idea of the meaning of the term by saying, "A snob is a vulgar person with bad manners.
The explanation of the snob might be continued by contrasting him with a perfect gentleman, thus bringing out more clearly the offensive qualities.
The best of these serial contributions were The Snob Papers: they are as fine specimens of humorous satire as exist in the language.
To it Thackeray contributed his Snob Papers, and Hood The Song of the Shirt.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "snob" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
