His grandmother was so snobbish about her husband's relations that she only married him on condition that he never see them again.

Its real name, you know, is South Fifth Avenue; but the Avenue got so snobbish it insisted on its humbler brother changing its name.

"They wouldn't if they had any sense," responded Grace hotly, "I never believed that those girls could be so snobbish.

"The mental attitude you caricature is not so snobbish as it seems," said Raphael Leon, breaking into the conversation for the first time.