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UK
/snˈɪfi/
]
[ US /ˈsnɪfi/ ]
[ US /ˈsnɪfi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy
haughty aristocrats
walked with a prideful swagger
some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines
his lordly manners were offensive
a more swaggering mood than usual
very sniffy about breaches of etiquette
his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air
How To Use sniffy In A Sentence
- We food snobs tend to be rather sniffy about her. Times, Sunday Times
- Britain's retail bankers tend to be a sniffy lot.
- It's easy to get sniffy about ‘celebrity culture’, but it simply fills the vacuum in public life.
- That pride continued for much of the 20th century, as developing nations studied the broad-based Scottish model to create their own curricula, and sniffy comparisons were made to schools in England.
- As babies grow bigger and fiercer, they contribute more mess and filth than llamas herded into your living room, and yet they're so sniffy about dirt.
- I'd have sold it but the tax disc had expired and the taxman was getting sniffy. Times, Sunday Times
- I know we terribly sophisticated Europeans tend to be very sniffy about America's obsession with 40-lane highways but (at least in my experience) you can get around the place.
- The two countries have obviously been shaken by the sniffy reaction of much of Europe to the EU Constitution.
- But he was sniffy about the roles he was offered, preferring to wait for ‘the big one’, and it never really came.
- Out go the twitching nostrils, flailing arms and sniffy declamations about a cheeky scintilla of vanilla and oodles of gunsmoke.
