Citations:sneerocracy

English citations of sneerocracy

Noun: "(UK, pejorative) openly critical and condescending people viewed collectively"

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• 1987, Stuart Evans, Seasonal Tribal Feasts, Hutchinson (1987), →ISBN, page 19:

  The tang of aftershave on the wily features 'composed in excruciated compassion' (The Times); 'locked in knowing derision' (The Guardian): 'showing elitist sneerocracy of the media as only it can' (take your pick from the fringe press).

• 2002, Mark Lawson, "The fall and rise of Jamie", The Guardian, 5 December 2002:

  While the media sneerocracy only came round to Oliver because of his pro bono project, the huge number of people buying his books and wheeling their Sainsbury's trolleys in his wake had already responded to his charisma.

• 2010, "Actually, Lembit's in the swim", Belfast Telegraph, 1 December 2010:

  The sneerocracy, however, are appalled to even countenance that such an uncool character could attract any woman.

• 2011, Melanie Phillips, "The election of Australia's new PM Tony Abbott is clear evidence that genuine conservative policies can win elections", Daily Mail, 8 September 2013:

  Only the Cameroons, paralysed as they are by the fashionable prejudices aired at metropolitan dinner tables and the terror of getting on the wrong side of the BBC sneerocracy.

• 2013, Brendan O'Neill, "I refuse to participate in this sneerocracy", The Big Issue, 1 October 2013:

  The sneerocracy consists of certain hacks, cartoonists, TV presenters, comedians, activists and the Twitterati, all of whom make it their lives’ work to sneer at politicians – not merely to criticise them and hold them to account, which we all must do, but to mock them, to call into question their every action, to wonder endlessly about their “real” (that is, sinister) motives.