inverted snobbery
noun [ U ] UK disapproving uk/ɪnˌvɜː.tɪd ˈsnɒb.ər.i/ us/ɪnˌvɝː.t̬ɪd ˈsnɑː.bɚ.i/
倒转势利
behaviour and opinions that are typical of an inverted snob
Your inverted snobbery is showing. 你的倒转势利显露出来了。
It's often inverted snobbery - people look at you and think ugh, posh school and Oxford. 这往往是倒转势利——人们看着你时会想到，唉，豪华学校和牛津出来的。
See: inverted snob
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- Indeed, today a sort of inverted snobbery operates, so accents either have to be regional or a curiously bland "Estuary English".
- It's not uncommon among musicians to find inverted snobbery or even envy towards those whose talents might be said to be disproportionate to their incomes and their audiences.
- An outbreak of inverted snobbery has gripped the barbecue-diners of Sydney. They're investigating their family trees in the hope of finding a convicted felon in the branches.
- The problem with inverted snobbery is that it tends to celebrate the wrong kind of working-class culture: the non-working kind, in fact.