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Snobbishness

Vulgar affectation or ostentation; mean admiration of mean things; conduct or manners of a snob.

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Arrogance 76% connected

The act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner; that species of pride which consists in exorbitant claims of rank, d…

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Haughtiness 76% connected

The quality of being haughty; disdain; arrogance.

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Hauteur 76% connected

Haughty manner or spirit; haughtiness; pride; arrogance.

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Lordliness 76% connected

The state or quality of being lordly.

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Exclusiveness 76% connected

Quality of being exclusive.

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Snobbery 92% connected

The quality of being snobbish; snobbishness.

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Snobbism 92% connected

Snobbery.

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Above preposition · 78% connection

Figuratively, higher than; superior to in any respect; surpassing; beyond; higher in measure or degree than; as, things above comprehe…

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Average adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to an average or mean; medial; containing a mean proportion; of a mean size, quality, ability, etc.; ordinary; usual; as, a…

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Boastless adjective · 78% connection

Without boasting or ostentation.

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Brag verb · 78% connection

To talk about one's self, or things pertaining to one's self, in a manner intended to excite admiration, envy, or wonder; to talk boas…

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Bravery noun · 78% connection

Splendor; magnificence; showy appearance; ostentation; fine dress.

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Cad noun · 78% connection

A lowbred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow.

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Civilized adjective · 78% connection

Reclaimed from savage life and manners; instructed in arts, learning, and civil manners; refined; cultivated.

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Comity noun · 78% connection

Mildness and suavity of manners; courtesy between equals; friendly civility; as, comity of manners; the comity of States.

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Common adjective · 78% connection

being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vu…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vulgar, affectation, ostentation, mean, admiration.
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Dowdy superl. · 78% connection

Showing a vulgar taste in dress; awkward and slovenly in dress; vulgar-looking.

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Elegant adjective · 78% connection

Very choice, and hence, pleasing to good taste; characterized by grace, propriety, and refinement, and the absence of every thing offe…

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Fanfaronade noun · 78% connection

A swaggering; vain boasting; ostentation; a bluster.

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Flourish noun · 78% connection

Something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.; ostentatious…

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Flunky noun · 78% connection

One who is obsequious or cringing; a snob.

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Foppish adjective · 78% connection

Foplike; characteristic of a top in dress or manners; making an ostentatious display of gay clothing; affected in manners.

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Impolite adjective · 78% connection

Not polite; not of polished manners; wanting in good manners; discourteous; uncivil; rude.

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Jupiter noun · 78% connection

One of the planets, being the brightest except Venus, and the largest of them all, its mean diameter being about 85,000 miles. It revo…

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Low superl. · 78% connection

Mean; vulgar; base; dishonorable; as, a person of low mind; a low trick or stratagem.

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