inverted snob

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• inverted snob — noun A person who prefers (the attitudes and conventions of) the lower classes to (those of) the upper classes • • • Main Entry: ↑invert …   Useful english dictionary

• inverted snobbery — noun derogatory the attitude of disdaining anything associated with wealth or high social status, while elevating those things associated with lack of wealth and social position. Derivatives inverted snob noun …   English new terms dictionary

• inverted snobbery — /ɪnˌvɜtəd ˈsnɒbəri/ (say in.vertuhd snobuhree) noun snobbery which takes the form of shunning the more elevated members of society and ostentatiously professing an allegiance with the poor and lowly. –inverted snob, noun …  

• Snob — A snob, guilty of snobbery, is someone who adopts the worldview that some people are inherently inferior to him/her for any one of a variety of reasons, including real or supposed intellect, wealth, education, ancestry, etc.Fact|date=May 2007… …   Wikipedia

• snob·bery — /ˈsnɑːbəri/ noun [noncount] disapproving : the behavior or attitude of people who think they are better than other people : the behavior or attitude of snobs the snobbery of some wine connoisseurs (chiefly US) By a kind of reverse snobbery, he… …   Useful english dictionary

• invert — v. & n. v.tr. 1 turn upside down. 2 reverse the position, order, or relation of. 3 Mus. change the relative position of the notes of (a chord or interval) by placing the lowest note higher, usu. by an octave. 4 subject to inversion. n. 1 a… …   Useful english dictionary

• snobbery — snob|be|ry [ˈsnɔbəri US ˈsna: ] n [U] behaviour or attitudes which show that you think you are better than other people, because you belong to a higher social class or know much more than they do used to show disapproval ▪ intellectual snobbery… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• Codependency — (or codependence, co narcissism or inverted narcissism) is unhealthy love and a tendency to behave in overly passive or excessively caretaking ways that negatively impact one s relationships and quality of life. It also often involves placing a… …   Wikipedia

• Narcissism — Narcissus by Caravaggio (Galleria Nazionale d Arte Antica, Rome) Narcissism is a term with a wide range of meanings, depending on whether it is used to describe a central concept of psychoanalytic theory, a mental illness, a social or cultural… …   Wikipedia

• Sam Vaknin — Born Shmuel Ben David Vaknin April 1961 Qiryat Yam, Haifa Residence Skopje, Macedonia Occupation Writer Known for Self help material on …   Wikipedia

• Elitism — is the belief or attitude that some individuals, who form an elite a select group of people with intellect, wealth, specialized training or experience, or other distinctive attributes are those whose views on a matter are to be taken the most… …   Wikipedia