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Snobbery

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1843, OED Evaluation: N/A

The character or quality of being a snob; snobbishness; vulgar ostentation.

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And- and there was a bit of- at that time there was a bit of snobbery attached to going to Haileybury because not everybody could go because you had to have those marks. And I don't think that was the reason I went. I just went there because it was closer and because my brothers and sisters had gone there and I knew it had a good- it was a good reputation and-all-those-things.
Being a snob