: qualities in a product that appeal to the snobbery in a purchaser
Examples of snob appeal in a Sentence
Expensive cars have snob appeal.
old foreign films with snob appeal
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Gucci’s mystique at that time came down to quality and snob appeal.—Vogue,
24 Nov. 2021 Big state universities as well as name brands with global snob appeal and huge endowments can survive the additional pressure piled on by the pandemic.—
Spencer Jakab,
WSJ,
25 June 2021 If your priorities are snob appeal and playing one-upmanship down at the polo club, the price should be an attribute, not an obstacle.—
Tony Assenza,
Car and Driver,
30 June 2020 Post 1980, part of the attraction of rangefinders was snob appeal.—IEEE Spectrum,
13 Dec. 2018