How To Use Sniffy In A Sentence
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We food snobs tend to be rather sniffy about her.
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Britain's retail bankers tend to be a sniffy lot.
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It's easy to get sniffy about ‘celebrity culture’, but it simply fills the vacuum in public life.
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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.
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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.
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I'd have sold it but the tax disc had expired and the taxman was getting sniffy.
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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.
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The two countries have obviously been shaken by the sniffy reaction of much of Europe to the EU Constitution.
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But he was sniffy about the roles he was offered, preferring to wait for ‘the big one’, and it never really came.
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Out go the twitching nostrils, flailing arms and sniffy declamations about a cheeky scintilla of vanilla and oodles of gunsmoke.
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And what right do doctors have to be sniffy about the benefits of alternative therapies when their knowledge about the potential side-effects of the medication they are prescribing is so limited?
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Let's also not get too sniffy about doping as others test positive, or are thrown out like one European athlete overnight for a positive test at a July meeting.
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Some sniffy critics questioned her presence, while top dress designers apparently refused to lend her a gown because she wasn't classy enough.
The Sun
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In an industry in which visionaries are often sniffy about anyone else's ideas, the readiness to go elsewhere proved a devastating advantage.
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The Dog was all sniffy-nosed and waggy-tailed about it.
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The somewhat sniffy attitude towards the new format in the beginning was swept away by the spectators who marched through the turnstiles in their thousands taking their kids along with them.
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In fact, as this biography progresses, its author becomes increasingly sniffy about much of his subject's thinking; so much so, you start to wonder why exactly he set out to rescue him.
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The wards were cleared of overbearing aunts, unruly children, enthusiastic colleagues and sniffy mothers-in-law.
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He was also a natural populist in a field that was sniffy and exclusive, bringing to the Met and Covent Garden a sense of opera as Italian peasant fare, "macaroni" for the masses.
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And it is not only the French who are a bit sniffy.
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Britain has always had a sniffy attitude towards craftsmen.
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He still paints, and his classical works have sold well, although critics have been sniffy.
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My sin had been to write something - years previously - that was a bit sniffy about giant age gaps in relationships.
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There is a middle-class reserve to Edinburgh that gets rather sniffy at the thought of making a public display of oneself.
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Orthodox experts tend to be rather sniffy about such tests.
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His sniffy attitude to Motown may be dead wrong but his dissection of the creative and entrepreneurial side of the music industry is unrivalled.
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Sam Waterston has been doing his high-sniffy rectitudinous grandstanding for so long it's as if he expects some soft of Atticus Finch statue; Elisabeth Rohm is no worse than Angie Harmon, but no better; and Fred Thompson is a pompous pork chop whose cliched Southern homilies wouldn't be listened to seriously for ten seconds in NY (whereas Steven Hill, with his crusty cut-the-crap irritability and desire to get out of the office before bad news could follow, was the authentic article).
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It was a bit unfair, I suggested, to be sniffy about people wanting to become pop stars when the alternative was, say, working in a factory.
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And I'm rather sniffy about league tables for dinner.
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The town consists of two rustically elegant cabins, a ranch office, paddocks with shelters, a covered round pen, stables, and at the center of it all, Sniffy's Saloon.
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And even Condé Nast, an organisation that had hitherto been rather sniffy about electronic editions, started to publish some of its prime properties such as the New Yorker, via the iTunes tollgate.
Has the revolt begun against Apple's iPad app fees??
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New York has been rather sniffy about Ramsay.
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A dog that appears to have a double nose is struggling to find a home after being overlooked by sniffy prospective owners.
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Given Europe's appalling unemployment record, especially its failure to provide jobs for young folk, the Continent's elite have no right to be sniffy.
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It's easy these days to be sniffy about hybrid tea roses and consign them to the compost heap of postwar fashion.
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Perhaps they were right to be at least a little sniffy.
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One day, Sniffy was scrubbing his toes in the pond.
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The critics, notoriously sniffy, had perhaps forgotten that in opera there is always an element of the unbelievable.
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Been schmaltzy bitterly it for graphic design firms, archeozoic a headlong abstruse therefore how i was erstwhile dyslogistic to go this anethum and omg it was forficate to be so sniffy.
Rational Review
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People are a bit sniffy about Wizz Air.
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A lot of fashion people are sniffy about Holland.
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We food snobs tend to be rather sniffy about her.
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The governor of the castle was very sniffy about letting us have it - saying that it shouldn't be used for political events.
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Wine critics and oenophiles can get very sniffy about these wines, and often do their best to avoid them.
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The art establishment is distinctly sniffy about his work.
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When she launched her fashion brand in 2008, people were decidedly sniffy.
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But according to sniffy British sources, the arrests were the result of a long-standing intelligence operation that began long before the American alerts.
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very sniffy about breaches of etiquette
