reverse snobbism

American  

[ri-vurs snahb-iz-uhm] / rɪˈvɜrs ˈsnɑbˌɪz əm /

noun

1. a less common variant of reverse snobbery.

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Example Sentences

That argument reflected the reverse snobbism of intellectuals who were unwilling to grant that the rich and the worldly were worthy of a novelist's attention, as if there had been no Proust.

From Time Magazine Archive

The challenge of "living free," seeing Europe on a shoestring and with a sleeping bag, has elements of reverse snobbism that appeal to the professed antimaterialistic instincts of youth.

From Time Magazine Archive