The phrase "a snob for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who has a particular disdain or superiority complex regarding a specific interest or category, such as food, fashion, or culture.
Example: "She's such a snob for fine wine, always looking down on those who prefer cheaper options."
Alternatives: "a connoisseur of" or "a snob about".
He calls the president a "snob" for wanting more Americans to have some higher education.
Trashing higher education: He called President Obama "a snob" for urging students to attend college.
Mr. Santorum called President Obama "a snob" for urging students to go to college.
He has called the President a "snob" for wanting every American to go to college.
THE Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum recently called President Obama a "snob" for supporting higher education for all Americans.
But nobody is only the sum of their background, and Kit isn't only a snob, for the story to deplore.
So when the "Harvard faculty lounge" is held up for ridicule and contempt; when Obama is called an elitist snob for wanting kids to get a college education, we see an attack on both Jews and our "education first" values.
Truman himself recalls discussing the history of Central Asia and the Middle East from Genghis Khan to the ambitions of modern Russia.You express a snob's disdain for "this inarticulate haberdasher from the heartland" because he was self-made and had no formal degree.
An echt Burkean with a snob's disdain for the contemporary Republican Party, Hart hinted at a road not taken, in which a Buckley-led conservative intelligentsia might have labored to infiltrate and convert the liberal-leaning Eastern Establishment, rather than making common cause with Sunbelt populists, Reagan Democrats and other faintly embarrassing constituencies.
While Montandon is sympathetic — an up-by-her-bootstraps gal who was cruelly dumped for a snob who terribly hurt her child — it becomes hard to muster much love for her by the end of the book.
"I have (and for this gift I congratulate myself with a Deep and Abiding Thankfulness) an eye for a Snob," Thackeray wrote.
