[ UK /snˈuːti/ ]
[ US /ˈsnuti/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant
    a snotty little scion of a degenerate family
    they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety
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How To Use snooty In A Sentence

  • When her snooty daughter visits, she is embarrassed by her relative poverty.
  • There's no point in being overly snooty about it. Times, Sunday Times
  • Come on – that group is a mouthpiece not for animal rescue groups – but kennel owners – a snooty subsegment of the dog-breeding industry. Doggone It, Just Get the Puppy Already - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
  • Opera snobs are terribly snooty about Bocelli's particular brand of "popera" - Time To Say Goodbye, which he does with Sarah Brightman, is possibly the cheesiest song ever to have been recorded - but I imagine that as he sang to the crowd in Central Park, he couldn't have given two hoots. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • There is no real segregation - people are not snooty in Ripon. Times, Sunday Times
  • The right-bankers find the left bank kind of snooty and touristy I suppose. 08/03/2006
  • People can be kind of snooty about community colleges, [but] they are flexible and ready to go," says Judy Goggin, a vice president of Civic Ventures, a San Francisco nonprofit that works to redirect individuals age 50-plus into service-oriented careers. Savvy Schools
  • Penelope" tells the perfectly -- well, imperfectly -- inane tale of a snouty young woman from a snooty family. Two heads better than one in 'The Other Boleyn Girl'
  • She was my mother's mother, a proud, snooty woman who had never really forgiven my mom for marrying my dad.
  • Certain quarters of the snooty music press spent years writing them off as lager louts. The Sun
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