Meaning of Podsnappery | Babel Free

Definitions

Smug self-satisfaction and a lack of interest in the affairs of others.

derogatory, uncountable

Examples

“No doubt in particular contexts certain of these judgments might be sustained. But what is evident, wherever such judgments obtrude, is the loosening of emotional control and the displacement of analysis by commination. There is, about them, the air of an inverted Podsnappery.”

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