“a person who pretends to have social importance, is intellectually superior, etc” Random House College Dictionary

Notice the definition says pretends to have and not has.

The persons, businesses, and professions where snobbishness has been the strongest encountered during my career have been with residential interior design, etiquette, and aesthetics.

Those who reach a certain level of success pontificate that their position is the ultimate one.

And many will use that position to regulate and control certain aspects of their professions.

In much of life, there are many situations where quality is an important factor for value.

Usually, the higher the quality, the higher the value.

In many of these situations, the discernment of quality is non-negotiable after a certain point or level and the only difference is personal taste or preference.

It is at this point that snobs really start to show their true colors.

Their insistence and nitpicking about what is really irrelevant to quality becomes their theme song and behavior pattern.

At this stage, the snob is at their glorious peak.

Grandma is quoted as saying there is more than one way to cook chicken.

Human behavior is not my major area of professional expertise, but does such behavior not suggest that these snobs have a problem with their identity, lack of confidence, socioeconomic status, insecurity, et cetera or maybe, as many people are, they are just are, as one might say in polite society, disgusting, undesirable, uncouth, not welcomed, and not good people for the preservation and advancement of human society.

What do you think, how do you react, and how is your behavior affected when in the presence of snob behavior?

And, surely, you never manifest snobbish behavior?

Food for thought.