At age eleven, Sébastien is sent to boarding school by his father, an ironmonger and terrible snob.

Like most of the family, he was also a terrible snob.

I'm afraid we are all terrible snobs, unlike you Americans.

"You're a terrible old inverted snob," he said fondly, but she paid no attention to this.

And if I appear to be a terrible old snob.

He was a terrible snob," the author writes, "his pride somehow outrageous and shaky at the same time.

Not only is he a terrible snob, he's also a prude and a mama's boy.

At bottom, Daniel was a terrible snob.

He may be snobbish but you are clearly a terrible inverted snob and therefore no better than him.

I was a passable student, but a terrible snob.