Meanings of academic snobbery in English

High failure rates at third level have been blamed on an " academic snobbery" by a leading school principal.

The move has been sharply criticised by the Teachers' Union of Ireland, which said it may be motivated by academic snobbery''.

Next, let us turn from the general promotion of a spirit of academic snobbery to the particular damage done to individuals by the system.

Like O'Flanagan, I argue that academic snobbery has put popular literature in a ghetto where it is unreasonably labelled as, somehow, inferior to "highbrow" fiction.